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This Volume Provides The First Survey Of The Unexplored Connections Between Machiavelli's Work And The Islamic World, Running From The Arabic Roots Of The Prince To Its First Translations Into Ottoman Turkish And Arabic. It Investigates Comparative Descriptions Of Non-european Peoples, Renaissance Representations Of Muḥammad And The Ottoman Military Discipline, A Jesuit Treatise In Persian For A Mughal Emperor, Peculiar Readers From Brazil To India, And The Parallel Lives Of Machiavelli And The Bureaucrat Celālzāde Muṣṭafá. Ten Distinguished Scholars Analyse The Backgrounds, Circulation And Reception Of Machiavelli's Writings, Focusing On Many Aspects Of The Mutual Exchange Of Political Theories And Grammars Between East And West. A Significant Contribution To Attempts By Current Scholarship To Challenge Any Rigid Separation Within Eurasia, This Volume Restores A Sense Of The Global Spreading Of Books, Ideas And Men In The Past.-- Lucio Biasiori, Giuseppe Marcocci, Editors. A One-day Workshop Entitled 'machiavelli, Islam And The East' Was Held At The Scuola Normale Superiore In Pisa, On 6 May 2013--page V. Includes Bibliographical References (pages 225-251) And Index.

Author

Lucio Biasiori; Giuseppe Marcocci; Scuola normale superiore (Italy); Machiavelli, Islam and the East (Conference)

Publisher

Palgrave Macmillan

Published

2017

Language

EN

ISBN

9783319539485

Subjects

Philosophy, Science, History

Rating

5 / 5 (1 ratings)

Updated

2026-03-14