An Early Modern South Asian Thinker on the Rise and Decline of Empires: Shāh Walī Allāh of Delhi, the Mughals, and the Byzantines
- Vasileios Syros
- History
- 24 May 2013
This article offers an in-depth discussion of the theory of civilization of Shāh Walī Allāh of Delhi, a prominent Muslim scholar in eighteenth-century India. It shows that Shāh Walī Allāh articulates…
Between Chimera and Charybdis: Byzantine and Post-Byzantine Views on the Political Organization of the Italian City-States
- Vasileios Syros
- History
- 1 October 2010
This article offers a detailed investigation of Byzantine and post-Byzantine perceptions of the political organization of the Italian city-states. Drawing on philosophical and historical writing…
Galenic Medicine and Social Stability in Early Modern Florence and the Islamic Empires
- Vasileios Syros
- History
- 2013
Abstract Modern perceptions of cross-cultural encounters between Europe and the Islamic empires have centered around the differences between the European and Islamic systems of political organization…
Marsilius of Padua at the Intersection of Ancient and Medieval Traditions of Political Thought
- Vasileios Syros
- History
- 31 December 2012
Bibliographical Note Acknowledgments Introduction Sources Outline of Chapters Chapter I. Marsilius' Life and Works Chapter II. Major Intellectual Influences on Marsilius Albertino Mussato and Paduan…
A NOTE ON THE TRANSMISSION OF ARISTOTLE'S POLITICAL IDEAS IN MEDIEVAL PERSIA AND EARLY-MODERN INDIA. WAS THERE ANY ARABIC OR PERSIAN TRANSLATION OF THE POLITICS?
- Vasileios Syros
- Philosophy
- 2008
Marsilius of Padua and Isaac Abravanel on Kingship: The Medieval Precedents of Republicanism Revisited
- Vasileios Syros
- HistoryMedieval Encounters
- 24 September 2020
This article offers a comparative investigation of Marsilius of Padua’s and Isaac Abravanel’s ideas on kingship. It looks at how these thinkers transform the “canonical” sources of their respective…
Indian Emergencies: Baranī's Fatāwā-i Jahāndārī, the Diseases of the Body Politic, and Machiavelli's accidenti
- Vasileios Syros
- Art
- 2 November 2012
This essay proposes a novel interpretation of the Fatāwā-i Jahāndārī (Precepts of world rulership), one of the major sources of Indo-Islamic political thought produced by Ziyā' al-Dīn Baranī, a…
Evil lords, benign historians: strongman politics in medieval India and Renaissance Florence
- Vasileios Syros
- HistoryIntellectual History Review
- 2 January 2019
ABSTRACT Recent developments in Europe and the United States (US) attest to an increasing fascination with and nostalgia for the strong rulers of the past – especially those that emerged in the…
Shadows in Heaven and Clouds on Earth: The Emergence of Social Life and Political Authority in the Early Modern Islamic Empires
- Vasileios Syros
- History
- 20 August 2012
Whereas medieval Arabic accounts of the genesis of social life and emergence of political authority have received sustained scholarly interest, there has not yet been any systematic attempt to…
The Safavid Machiavelli: Shāh ʿAbbās I and the “Great Man” Theory Revisited
- Vasileios Syros
- HistoryComparative Political Theory
- 16 June 2021
Political discourse in various countries around the world has been characterized by disillusionment with governments’ failure to address pressing concerns of today’s societies. It is also possible…
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