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Program

Research Programs: Translations

Period of Performance

1/1/1985 - 3/31/1987

Funding Totals

$19,500.00 (approved)
$19,500.00 (awarded)

The Sea of Precious Virtues (Bahr al-Fava'id): A 12th-Century Persian Mirror for Princes

FAIN: RL-20608-84

Julie Scott Meisami
Unaffiliated Independent Scholar (Oxford OX1 2LE United Kingdom)

To support an annotated translation of the "Bahr al-Fava'id" ("The Sea of Precious Virtues"), a treatise reflecting orthodox Islamic views on kingship and ethics.