Politics and resourcefulness among the Arabs

This book is a hundred years ahead of the era of the Italian politician Machiavelli, as it contains "political tricks", which makes it in the ranks of the book "The Prince" in terms of teaching the arts of emirate and government. It is distinguished by its distance from the method of direct speech and open teaching, so it chooses the story and the tale as a means of education and guidance.

It is strange that this book, originally written in Arabic since the year 1061 AH/1651 AD, has remained unknown to the readers of Arabic, while it has been widely and circulated among the readers of a number of European languages since 1976, when the researcher Reneh Khawam extracted this book from a manuscript deposited in the library’s stocks. National in Paris. Its publication was not limited to the French language, but it also transcended into other languages.

We have no doubt that the Arab reader will receive a double benefit: the joy of stories and anecdotes on the one hand, and the recovery of Arab political history on the other.