The Art of Ruling Yourself
The Lost Ottoman Philosophy of a Good LifeBy Narin Hikma
Length9h 2m
About this audiobook
What if the reason you struggle to hold your life together is not a character flaw, but a governance problem?
In 1562, Ottoman judge Kınalızade Ali Efendi sat down to write what the law could never solve: how to govern yourself, your household, and your piece of the world. His realization was that these are not three separate challenges, but one problem at three magnifications—and most people fail because they work on the wrong level.
This narrative biography brings to life the man who wrote the Ottoman Golden Age's definitive guide to human conduct and self-mastery.
• See why the gap between who you are and who you meant to be is a governance issue
• Discover why the household is the load-bearing wall for personal and public life
• Find the honest test for whether your virtue is genuine or merely performed
This is a book for anyone holding everything together and wondering at what cost.
Start with the first page. The rest is only twenty paces away.
Audiobook details
GenrePhilosophy, Biography and Memoir
Length9 hrs 2 mins
Narrated byListen with 1,000+ voices
FormateBook with Audio
Publish dateSep 19, 2023
LanguageEnglish
Table of contents
1Dedication
2Epigraph
3Prologue
41. The Judge in Damascus
52. Henna on a Beard
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63. The Inheritance of Aristotle
74. The Four Foundations
85. The Virtuous Mean
96. On Knowing Yourself
107. The Door of Ebussuud
118. What Anger Does to a Man
129. The Art of Friendship
1310. A House Is a Small State
1411. On Marriage and Partnership
1512. The Education of Children
1613. On Wealth and Its Right Use
1714. The Threshold Between Home and World
1815. Justice as the Supreme Virtue
1916. What a Ruler Owes the People
2017. The Empire at Its Height
2118. The Gout and the Campaign
2219. What He Left Behind
2320. The Map That Was Always There
24Epilogue
2521. Author's Note
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