Publication

2017 - Springer International Publishing AG

Language

English

Word Count

66,000 words, Guess

Page Count

264 pages

Identifiers

  • ISBN-139783319539485
  • ISBN-103319539485
  • Library of Congress Control Number2017937936
  • OCLC Control Number969829575
  • Better World Books9783319539485
and 1 more

Classifications

  • LCCDS41-66
  • LCCJC143.M4 M3222 2018

Description

"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."--

Subjects

Other Editions

  • Machiavelli, Islam and the EastSpringer International Publishing AG2017

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