The Elizabethan World Picture Al-Mawardi offers a compelling insight into

offers a compelling insight into the origins

The volume also includes a useful bibliography and a chronology of the most important Arabic thinkers

exacting intellect

From the translators introduction

The Elizabethan World Picture Al-Mawardi offers a compelling insight intoThis brief and illuminating account of the ideas of world order prevalent in the Elizabethan age and later is an indispensable companion for readers of the great writers of the sixteenth and seventeenth centuriesShakespeare and the Elizabethan dramatists, Donne and Milton, among many others. The basic medieval idea of an ordered Chain of Being is studied by Professor Tillyard in the process of its various transformations by the dynamic spirit of the