Machiavelli, Islam and the East Reorienting the Foundations of Moder
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 comparat
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Edited by Lucio Biasiori and Giuseppe Marcocci
Machiavelli, Islam and the East
Lucio Biasiori · Giuseppe Marcocci Editors
Machiavelli, Islam and the East Reorienting the Foundations of Modern Political Thought
Editors Lucio Biasiori Scuola Normale Superiore Pisa, Italy
Giuseppe Marcocci Exeter College, University of Oxford Oxford, UK
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Preface
A one-day workshop entitled ‘Machiavelli, Islam and the East’ was held at the Scuola Normale Superiore in Pisa, on 6 May 2013, when a group of colleagues gathered to celebrate the fifth centenary of The Prince by discussing overlooked features of its author’s contribution to the foundation of modern political thought. The event was organized in the framework of the FIRB-Futuro in Ricerca 2008 research project ‘Beyond the Holy War’ (2010–2014), of which Giuseppe Marcocci was the Principal Investigator, funded by the Italian Ministry of Education, Universities and Research. We are grateful to the staff of the Scuola Normale Superiore for making the workshop possible. Its success was ensured by the active presence of a number of scholars who do not contribute to this volume, but presented or commented on papers, chaired sessions, or took part in the general discussion. They are: Silvia Berti, Giancarlo Casale, Valentina Lepri, Michele Olivari, Géra
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