Lucio Biasiori is Balzan Prize Post-Doc Fellow at the Scuola Normale Superiore, Pisa, Italy. His research encompasses the cultural and religious history of early modern Europe. His last book is Nello scrittoio di Machiavelli. Il Principe e la Ciropedia di Senofonte (2017).

Giuseppe Marcocci is Associate Professor in Iberian History (European and Extra-European, 1450-1800) at the University of Oxford and a Fellow at Exeter College. His research focuses on the Iberian world and Renaissance historiography. His most recent book is Indios, cinesi, falsari: Le storie del mondo nel Rinascimento (2016).

Challenges conventional ideas about Machiavelli's contribution to the foundation of the modern political thought and its limitation to the West

Includes nine case studies of the Islamic backgrounds, circulation and reception of Machiavelli's writings to provide a refreshing interpretation that restores a sense of the global spreading of books, ideas and men in the past

Explores the connections between Machiavelli's work, the Muslim world, and the East

Includes supplementary material: [...]

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 Kit¿b sirr al-asr¿r 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: Mu¿ammad 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, Cel¿lz¿de Mu¿¿afá, and Connected Political Cultures in the Cinquecento/the Hijri Tenth Century; Kaya ¿ahin.- 9 Machiavelli Enters the Sublime Porte: The Introduction of The Prince to the Eighteenth-Century Ottoman World; Nergiz Y¿lmaz Aydödu.- 10 Translating Machiavelli in Egypt: The Prince and the Shaping of a New Political Vocabulary in the Nineteenth-Century Arab Mediterranean; Elisabetta Benigni.