Machiavelli, Islam and the East: Reorienting the Foundations of Modern Political Thought

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 afá, 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 Yilmaz Aydogdu.- 10 Translating Machiavelli in Egypt: The Prince and the Shaping of a New Political Vocabulary in the Nineteenth-Century Arab Mediterranean; Elisabetta Benigni.