Machiavelli, Islam and the East

<p>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 Kitāb sirr al-asrār 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: Muḥammad 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, Celālzāde Muṣṭafá, and Connected Political Cultures in the Cinquecento/the Hijri Tenth Century; Kaya Şahin.- 9 Machiavelli Enters the Sublime Porte: The Introduction of The Prince to the Eighteenth-Century Ottoman World; Nergiz Yılmaz Aydoğdu.- 10 Translating Machiavelli in Egypt: The Prince and the Shaping of a New Political Vocabulary in the Nineteenth-Century Arab Mediterranean; Elisabetta Benigni.</p><p></p>