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

• Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Other Authors: Biasiori, Lucio (Editor, http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/edt), Marcocci, Giuseppe (Editor, http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/edt)
• Format: Electronic eBook
• Language: English
• Published: Cham : Springer International Publishing : Imprint: Palgrave Macmillan, 2018.
• Edition: 1st ed. 2018.
• Subjects: Middle East-History.; Europe-History-1492-.; Italy-History.; Intellectual life-History.; History of the Middle East.; History of Early Modern Europe.; History of Italy.; Intellectual Studies.

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, Renaissa...