An essay on the history and hermeneutics of naiat al-muluk by ghazali, Abu Amid Muammad ibn Muammad al-Tusi: hermeneutic code

A hermeneutic analysis of the Oriental Philosophers’ writings is invariably a matter of great chal-lenge and difficulty. It is always full of allegory and literary divagations which intersperse a smooth flow of argumentation. This paper is written by Marklen Konurbaev, Professor of Literature at Moscow State Univer-sity and his son Salavat, a student of Arabic Philosophy. The paper consists of six parts and attempts to reveal the hidden message of a famous extract from the renowned book Ihya Ulum Al Din by a Persian philosopher Ghazālī, Abu Ḥamid Muḥammad Ibn Muḥammad Al-Tūsī, devoted to the analysis of the notion of “fairness in the doings of a ruler. The hermeneutic analysis was performed based on the methodology propounded by Roland Gérard Barthes - a French literary theorist, philosopher, linguist and critic. This is the first ever at-tempt to put together the methodological efforts of a Western scholar and profoundly oriental piece of philoso-phy. Results of the hermeneutic study are stunning and elucidating. The paper could be recommended to the students of literature and philosophy at the universities and colleges.