Machiavelli, Islam and the East
Springer International Publishing (Verlag)
978-3-319-53948-5 (ISBN)
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 Muhammad 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 Celalzade Mus afá. 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 is Balzan Prize Research Fellow at the Scuola Normale Superiore, Pisa, Italy. His interests encompass the cultural and religious history of early modern Europe. His first book is L’eresia di un umanista: Celio Secondo Curione nell’Europa del Cinquecento (2015). Giuseppe Marcocci is Associate Professor of Early Modern History at the University of Tuscia, Viterbo, Italy. 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).
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.
| Erscheinungsdatum | 23.11.2017 |
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| Zusatzinfo | XI, 264 p. |
| Verlagsort | Cham |
| Sprache | englisch |
| Maße | 148 x 210 mm |
| Themenwelt | Geisteswissenschaften ► Geschichte ► Regional- / Ländergeschichte |
| Schlagworte | Asian History • European History • Historiography • History • History of Early Modern Europe • history of ideas • history of islam • History of Italy • History of the Middle East • intellectual studies • Muslim world • Niccolò Machiavelli • Political History • Renaissance |
| ISBN-10 | 3-319-53948-5 / 3319539485 |
| ISBN-13 | 978-3-319-53948-5 / 9783319539485 |
| Zustand | Neuware |
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