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 Müammad 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 Cel¿lz¿de Mü¿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.
