Machiavelli, Islam and the East : reorienting the foundations of modern political thought /: reorienting the foundations of modern political thought. (2017)

• Record Type: Book
• Further Information: Note: Lucio Biasiori, Giuseppe Marcocci, editors.
• Editors: Biasiori, Lucio; Marcocci, Giuseppe
• Contents: 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.
• Publisher Details: Cham : Palgrave Macmillan
• Publication Date: 2017
• Extent: 1 online resource
• Subjects: 320.01; Political science -- Philosophy; Islamic philosophy; POLITICAL SCIENCE / Essays; POLITICAL SCIENCE / Government / General; POLITICAL SCIENCE / Government / National; POLITICAL SCIENCE / Reference; Islamic philosophy; Political science -- Philosophy; Machiavelli, Niccolo, 1469-1527; Islam; Political Science -- History & Theory; Religion -- Islam -- General; Electronic books; Electronic books
• Languages: English
• ISBNs: 9783319539492; 3319539493; 3319539485; 9783319539485
• Related ISBNs: 9783319539485; 3319539485
• Notes: Note: Includes bibliographical references and index.; Note: Online resource; title from PDF title page (EBSCO, viewed November 3, 2017)
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