Pub Date : 2019-04-04DOI: 10.1093/OSO/9780198777687.003.0005
S. Ng
This chapter focuses on Alexander the Great as an exemplary figure in English and Malay mirrors for princes, deriving from medieval Arabic sources. In particular, it considers Kitāb Sirr al-asrār, known in Latin as Secretum secretorum (Secret of Secrets), believed to be Aristotle’s advice to Alexander. It is a major influence on the early modern Malay Nasihat al-Muluk (Advice for Kings). The chapter considers how the mirrors see foreign others as a source of wisdom by reading Naṣīḥat al-mulūk (“Advice for princes”), Taj us-Salatin (Crown of Kings) and Dicts and Sayings of the Philosophers. It also examines Malay adaptation of two themes from Secretum—women’s authority and the art of physiognomy—and how they engaged with shared topoi, which it argues address similar concerns about interactions with foreigners.
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