This volume provides the first survey of the unexplored connections between Mach iavelli’s work and the Islamic world, running from the Arabic roots of The Prin ce to its first translations into Ottoman Turkish and Arabic. It investigates c omparative descriptions of non-European peoples, Renaissance representations of Mu?ammad and the Ottoman military discipline, a Jesuit treatise in Persian for a Mughal emperor, peculiar readers from Brazil to India, and the parallel lives o f Machiavelli and the bureaucrat Celalzade Mu??afá. Ten distinguished scholars a nalyse the backgrounds, circulation and reception of Machiavelli’s writings, foc using on many aspects of the mutual exchange of political theories and grammars between East and West. A significant contribution to attempts by current scholar ship to challenge any rigid separation within Eurasia, this volume restores a se nse of the global spreading of books, ideas and men in the past.