Excerpt from Les Prolégomènes d'Ibn Khaldoun, Vol. 2Le vizirat est la souche2 d'où dérivent les diverses charges sulta miennes et les dignités royales. En effet, ! Le mot seul de vizirat in dique d'unémanié - re générale l'idée car.il.dérive, soit de la troisième forme du verbe oaezera, laquelle signifie aider, soit de ouezr, nom qui signifie fardeau On comprendra la dernière dériva tion eu se rappelant que le vizir porte, simultanément avec le souve rain, le poids et le fardeau des affaires. Donc cela revient à la simple idée d'assistance.About the PublisherForgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.comThis book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully, any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.