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TABLE OF CONTENTS
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Translator's Preface
Author's Preface, including Doxology and Dedication
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Beginning of the Book. On the dignity of Kingship 3
Section II, on Cosmography . 4
"Section III, on the aE volution of the Mineral and
Vegetable Kingdoms ..... 5
Section IV, on the Animal Kingdom and^the Five
External Senses y 7
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, Section V, on the Five Internal Senses . . 8
Anecdote I, on the Nasnds or Wild Man, and the
Ascent of Man ...... o
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FIRS'T DISCOURSE. ON SECRETARIES.
The nature of the Secretarial Art and qualifications
of the Secretary . . . . .
II. Iskafi's skilful citation of the Qur'dn . . . 15
III. Iskafi's despatch on the defeat of Makan . . 16
IV. The secretary must be free from domestic worries 18
V. Laconic dismissal of an unjust judge of Qum . 19
VI. Importunity of the peopfe of Lamghan . .
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VII. Marriage of al-Ma'mtin with Ptiran . . . 21
VIII. Al-Mustarshid's denunciation of the Saljitqs . . 23
IX. Tlie Giir-Khan's warning to Atmatigin
X. Supernatural eloquence of the Qur'dn . . . 25
IX. Bughr