Chapter 1 Introduction: Reorienting Machiavelli

Chapter 2 Islamic Roots of Machiavelli’s Thought? The Prince and the Kitāb sirr al-asrār from Baghdad to and Back

Chapter 3 Turkophilia and Religion: Machiavelli, Giovio and the Sixteenth-Century Debate About War

Chapter 4 Machiavelli and the Antiquarians

Chapter 5 Roman Prophet or Muslim Caesar: Muḥammad the Lawgiver Before and After Machiavelli

Chapter 6 Mediterranean Exemplars: Jesuit Political Lessons for a Mughal Emperor

Chapter 7 Machiavelli, the Iberian Explorations and the Islamic Empire: Tropical Readers from Brazil to India (Sixteenth and Seventeenth Centuries)

Chapter 8 A Tale of Two Chancellors: Machiavelli, Celālzāde Muṣṭafā and Connected Political Cultures in the Cinquecento/the Hijri Tenth Century

Chapter 10 Translating Machiavelli in : The Prince and the Shaping of a New Political Vocabulary in the Nineteenth-Century Arab Mediterranean