Useful Enemies: Islam and The Ottoman Empire in Western Political Thought, 1450-1750
Noel Malcolm
ASIN: | B07NZWGG7C |
Publisher: | OUP Oxford |
Published: | 2 May, 2019 |
Format: | Kindle eBook |
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Useful Enemies: Islam and The Ottoman Empire in Western Political Thought, 1450-1750
Noel Malcolm
From the Renaissance to the Enlightenment, writers in Western Europe gave a huge amount of thought to the Ottoman Empire. This was not just because it was a military threat, but because it had a social and political system that was fascinatingly different from their own. As they developed their ideas about it - and about the nature of Islam as a 'political' religion - their arguments became intertwined with many internal Western debates about power, religion, society, and war. Useful Enemies is the first-ever book to trace all these lines of argument during those three vital centuries in the development of Western political thought.
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