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Intro -- Preface -- Contents -- Editors and Contributors -- Chapter 1 Introduction: Reorienting Machiavelli -- Part I From Readings to Readers -- Chapter 2 Islamic Roots of Machiavelli's Thought? The Prince and the Kitāb sirr al-asrār from Baghdad to Florence and Back -- "The Most Popular Book of the Middle Ages"? -- From the Reception to the Texts: Connecting The Prince and Kitāb sirr al-asrār -- The Secret and the Secretary -- "Let All Thy Affairs Be Strategetic and Cunning": War and Politics -- With Aristotle Beyond Aristotle -- Mirrors for Princes, Mirrors for Cultures -- Chapter 3 Turkophilia and Religion: Machiavelli, Giovio and the Sixteenth-Century Debate About War -- Faith, Arms and Discipline -- Imperialist Responses -- In Giovio's Wake -- Admiring the Turks, Beating the Turks -- Chapter 4 Machiavelli and the Antiquarians -- I -- II -- III -- IV -- V -- VI -- VII -- Part II Religions and Empires -- Chapter 5 Roman Prophet or Muslim Caesar: Muḥammad the Lawgiver Before and After Machiavelli -- Introduction: Momigliano and the Wise Men of Antiquity -- Muḥammad, Zoroaster and Buddha -- The Origins of Venice -- Muḥammad Among the Caesars -- Reading Valerius Maximus in the Renaissance -- Muḥammad the Lawgiver After Machiavelli -- Italian Pro-Ottoman Propaganda -- Conclusion: Reading the Alcorano di Macometto in Seventeenth-Century Florence -- Chapter 6 Mediterranean Exemplars: Jesuit Political Lessons for a Mughal Emperor -- Introduction: Jesuits and Mughals -- A Jesuit and "His" Text -- Conclusion -- Chapter 7 Machiavelli, the Iberian Explorations and the Islamic Empire: Tropical Readers from Brazil to India (Sixteenth and Seventeenth Centuries) -- Machiavelli, Ancient Rome and a New Age of Empires -- "As in Our Time the Turk Does": Competing for the Roman Legacy -- Thinking of the Ottoman "Great Lord" from the New World.

Shahab Ahmed's What Is Islam? The Importance of Being Islamic (2016) challenges Islamic Studies scholars, (art) historians, and anthropologists to reconsider theoretical frameworks underpinning historical and ethnographic research. This article addresses Ahmed's concerns that studies of Islam often conceptually privilege orthodoxy, by including drinking and intoxication as worthy of close attention in examining the history and the anthropology of Islam. The case of Wine Shop the Philosopher, run by a former Afghan refugee in The Hague and Amsterdam, is presented after establishing the comparative and interdisciplinary relevance of alcohol consumption in studies of Islam and Muslims. Ahmed's conceptual framework is used and assessed in comparison with the wine shops' contemporary pluralist reality by exploring the idealized boundaries of Persianate culture and Islam in dialogues between Persian-speaking interlocutors. It is argued that alcoholic drinks lend themselves to competing gastro-nationalisms and prompt ethnolinguistic tensions between and within groups with Turkish, Moroccan, Iranian, and Afghan backgrounds in the Netherlands. The focus on diverse, coexisting and clashing drink regimes, in conclusion, allows us to deconstruct dichotomies between sober Muslims and European drinkers, African and Asian believers and European unbelievers, and refugees and citizens.

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