This volume provides the first survey of the unexplored connections between Machiavelli"s works and the Islamic world, running from the Arabic roots of The Prince to its first translations into Ottoman Turkish and Arabic. This survey also explores the Discourses on Livy "s contribution to comparative descriptions of non-European peoples, Renaissance representations of Muhammad and the military discipline of the Ottomans, a Jesuit treatise in Persian for a Mughal emperor, tropical readers from Brazil to India, and the parallel lives of Machiavelli and the bureaucrat Celalzade Mus afį. In so doing, this volume makes a significant contribution to current scholarship"s attempt to challenge any rigid separation within Eurasia and restore a sense of the global spreading of books, ideas and men in the past.Ten distinguished scholars analyse backgrounds, circulation and reception of Machiavelli"s writings, focusing on many different aspects of the mutual exchange of political theories a
nd grammars between East and West.
1 Introduction: Reorienting Machiavelli; Lucio Biasiori and Giuseppe Marcocci.- Part One - From Readings to Readers.- 2 Islamic Roots of Machiavelli"s Thought? The Prince and the Kitab sirr al-asrar from Baghdad to Florence and Back; Lucio Biasiori.- 3 Turkophilia and Religion: Machiavelli, Giovio and the Sixteenth-Century Debate about War; Vincenzo Lavenia.- 4 Machiavelli and the Antiquarians; Carlo Ginzburg.- Part Two - Religion and Empires.- 5 Roman Prophet or Muslim Caesar: Muhammad the Lawgiver before and after Machiavelli; Pier Mattia Tommasino.- 6 Mediterranean Exemplars: Jesuit Political Lessons from a Mughal Emperor; Muzaffar Alam and Sanjay Subrahmanyam.- 7 Machiavelli and the Islamic Empire: Tropical Readers from Brazil to India (Sixteenth and Seventeenth Centuries); Giuseppe Marcocci.- Part Three - Beyond Orientalism.- 8 A Tale of Two Chancellors: Machiavelli, Celalzade Mus afį, and Connected Political Cultures in the Cinquecento/the Hijri Tenth Century; Kaya Sahin.- 9
Machiavelli Enters the Sublime Porte: The Introduction of The Prince to the Eighteenth-Century Ottoman World; Nergiz Y lmaz Aydogdu.- 10 Translating Machiavelli in Egypt: The Prince and the Shaping of a New Political Vocabulary in the Nineteenth-Century Arab Mediterranean; Elisabetta Benigni.
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"Machiavelli was the first Renaissance humanist to consider the Muslim world from a secular perspective, but his interactions with Islam have been little studied. This original volume will be essential reading not only for Machiavelli scholars but for students of modern global culture in its emerging intellectual stages." (Robert Black, Emeritus Professor of Renaissance History, University of Leeds, UK) "A timely, learned, and thoughtful intervention, this volume should be required reading for both students and seasoned scholars interested in the intellectual roots of Western modernity, and will surprise even those who are well acquainted with the work of Machiavelli." (Francesca Trivellato, Frederick W. Hilles Professor of History, Yale University, USA)
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1 Introduction: Reorienting Machiavelli |
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Part I From Readings to Readers |
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2 Islamic Roots of Machiavelli's Thought? The Prince and the Kitab sirr al-asrar from Baghdad to Florence and Back |
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3 Turkophilia and Religion: Machiavelli, Giovio and the Sixteenth-Century Debate About War |
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4 Machiavelli and the Antiquarians |
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5 Roman Prophet or Muslim Caesar: Muhammad the Lawgiver Before and After Machiavelli |
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6 Mediterranean Exemplars: Jesuit Political Lessons for a Mughal Emperor |
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7 Machiavelli, the Iberian Explorations and the Islamic Empire: Tropical Readers from Brazil to India (Sixteenth and Seventeenth Centuries) |
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8 A Tale of Two Chancellors: Machiavelli, Celalzade Mustafa and Connected Political Cultures in the Cinquecento/the Hijri Tenth Century |
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9 Machiavelli Enters the Sublime Porte: The Introduction of The Prince to the Eighteenth-Century Ottoman World |
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10 Translating Machiavelli in Egypt: The Prince and the Shaping of a New Political Vocabulary in the Nineteenth-Century Arab Mediterranean |
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Lucio Biasiori is Balzan Prize Post-Doc Fellow at the Scuola Normale Superiore, Pisa, Italy. His research encompasses the cultural and religious history of early modern Europe. His last book is Nello scrittoio di Machiavelli. Il Principe e la Ciropedia di Senofonte (2017).
Giuseppe Marcocci is Associate Professor in Iberian History (European and Extra-European, 1450-1800) at the University of Oxford and a Fellow at Exeter College. His research focuses on the Iberian world and Renaissance historiography. His most recent book is Indios, cinesi, falsari: Le storie del mondo nel Rinascimento (2016).
