PRACTICAL PHILOSOPHY

OF THE

MUHAMMADAN PEOPLE,

EXHIBITED

IN ITS PROFESSED CONNEXION WITH THE EUROPEAN, SO AS TO RENDER EITHER
AN INTRODUCTION TO THE OTHER;

BEING A TRANSLATION OF

THE AKHLĀK-I-JALĀLY,

THE MOST ESTEEMED ETHICAL WORK OF MIDDLE ASIA,

FROM THE PERSIAN OF

FAKĪR JĀNY MUHAMMAD ASÄAD:

(WITH REFERENCES AND NOTES)

BY W. F. THOMPSON, ESQ.

OF THE BENGAL CIVIL SERVICE.

“A portion at least of your precious opportunities you should contrive to rescue from the hand of Time the deceiver, and apply to the study of morals; — the essential aim and abstract of the whole round of science. The works of antiquity indeed, may not, in the present age, be procurable; but the study of the Akhlāk-i-Nāsiry and Akhlāk-i-Jalāly will afford you ample occupation.”

Letter from the Minister of Akbar to the Khānkhānān or Commander in Chief, Inshāï Abul Fazl. Daftar I. Lett. 13. and Daftar II. Lett. 13.

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