Wadh.Minasian 645 (The Ferdowsi Library, Wadham College, University of Oxford)

Summary of Contents: This work is one of the most important treatises in Practical Wisdom within the context of Islamic culture. Khvājah Naṣīr al-Dīn authored this book in 633 AH/1236 when he was in Quhistān in service of Nāṣir al-Dīn ʿAbd al-Raḥīm, the Muḥtasham of Ismāʿīliyah. After the fall of Ismāʿīliyah and demolition of Alamūt, Khvājah joined Hulākū and presented the work to him after adding an introduction. Some of the sources referenced by Khvājah in this work include: "Tahẕīb al-akhlāq" of Abū ʿAlī Maskūyah, "Rasālah-'i tadbīr-i manzil" of Bryson, the less-known Neopythagorean philosopher (2nd century), "Ārāʾ-i ahl al-madīnah al-fāz̤ilah" of Fārābī, and Risālah al-sīyāsiah" of Ibn Sīnā. This work is divided into three parts: ethics, household management, and civil politics. The initial and final folios are missing, a few folios at the beginning of the introduction, and a few folios at the end of the eighth chapter (last chapter) of the third topic (civil politics).