Articles & Chapters

Islamic Political Thought and the Greek Legacy: The Social Covenant and Charismatic Authority

in Brill’s Companion to the Legacy of Greek Political Thought, ed. David Carter, Rachel Foxley, and Liz Sawyer (Leiden and Boston: Brill, 2024; forthcoming)

Peace and Unity in Late Medieval Political Thought: Marsilius of Padua, Émile Durkheim, and the Division of Labor

Comparative Political Theory (forthcoming)

Ένας αθηναίος ξένος και η Φλωρεντία των Μεδίκων: Ο Χριστόφορος Κοντολέων και η αναγεννησιακή πολιτική σκέψη

in Ο ελληνικός κόσμος, 15ος–19ος αιώνας. Ιδέες–Γεγονότα–Γράμματα [“An Athenian Stranger and Medicean Florence: Christophoros Kontoleon and Renaissance Political Thought,” in The Greek World 15th–19th Century: Ideas–Events–Letters] (Athens: Ministry of Culture and Sports, Directorate of Letters, 2023), 245–61

The Mughal Experiment: The Indo-Islamic Legacy of Global IR

E-International Relations (17.08.2023) [= “Indian IR Meets Global IR” Series, ed. Deepshikha Shahi and Raghav Dua]

How Republics Perish: Lodovico Alamanni, the Medici, and Transformational Leadership

The European Legacy: Toward New Paradigms 28, no. 6 (2023): 557–76

The Modern Inventor of Utopia’ and Venetian Jewish Political Thought

Revue des études juives 182, nos. 3–4 (2023): 429–50

[with Vasileios Tsiotras] Greek Identity and Education in the Seventeenth Century: Theophilos Korydalleus’ Political Movement in the Orthodox East

Byzantine and Modern Greek Studies 47, no. 2 (2022): 198–217

Magnificence as a Royal Virtue in Ottoman Jewish Political Thought

Renaissance Quarterly 74, no. 4 (2021): 1071–1110

Еврейская мысль и гуманистическая ученость в Османской империи XVI века

[“Jewish Thought and Humanist Learning in the 16th–Century Ottoman Empire”]

—Russian translation by Maria Kolpakova] Mare nostrum (Centre for Intellectual History, Institute of World History, Russian Academy of Sciences) 2 (= Mare historiarum) (2021): 184–209

The Safavid Machiavelli: Shāh ʿAbbās I and the ‘Great Man’ Theory Revisited

Comparative Political Theory 1, no. 1 (2021): 57–79

State Failure and Successful Leadership in Medieval India

Studies in History 37, no. 1 (2021): 7–25

Cosmological Metaphors and Early Modern Absolutism in Seventeenth-Century Jewish Political Thought

Revue des études juives 180, nos. 1–2 (2021): 55–80

Marsilius of Padua on Sovereignty

in Reading Texts on Sovereignty, ed. Stella Achilleos and Antonis Balasopoulos (= Textual Moments in the History of Political Thought) (London: Bloomsbury Publishing, 2021), 49–56.

The Origins of Human Society and Justice in Early Modern Islamic Political Thought

научно-образовательный журнал «История» [The Journal of Education and Science “ISTORIYA” (“History”)] 11, no. 11 (97) (2020) [special issue “Границы медиевистики ибезграничное средневековье” (“Boundaries of Medieval Studies and Limitless MiddleAges”), ed. Pavel Uvarov et al.]

—Revised version: “The Origins of Social Life and Justice in Early Modern Islamic Political Philosophy,” Dia-noesis: A Journal of Philosophy 10 (2021): 113–42

Cosmopolitan Ideas in Early Modern Europe and the Jewish Tradition

Czech and Slovak Journal of Humanities: Philosophica 2 (2020): 56–67

Ὁ Εὐστάθιος Θεσσαλονίκης γιὰ τὶς ἀπαρχὲς τοῦ κοινωνικοῦ βίου καὶ τὴν ἐξέλιξη τοῦ πολιτισμοῦ: Σημεῖα σύγκλισης μὲ τὸν πολιτικὸ στοχασμὸ τοῦ Δυτικοῦ Μεσαίωνα

(= “Eustathius of Thessalonica on the Origins of Social Life and the Evolution of Civilization: Points of Intersection with Western Medieval Political Thought”) Θεολογία 91, no. 3 (2020): 251–85 [= ἰδιόμελον]

Conflict and Political Decline in Machiavelli and Renaissance Jewish Historiography

in Гвиччардини и Макиавелли у истоков исторической науки Нового времени (= Machiavelli e Guicciardini alle origini della scienza storica dei tempi moderni), ed. Mark Youssim (Moscow: Institute of World History, Russian Academy of Sciences, 2020), 368–92

Marsilius of Padua and Isaac Abravanel on Kingship: The Medieval Precedents of Republicanism Revisited

Medieval Encounters: Jewish, Christian and Muslim Culture in Confluence and Dialogue 26, no. 3 (2020): 203–25

The Body Politic from Medieval Lombardy to the Dutch Republic: An Introduction

Early Science and Medicine 25, no. 1 [= The Body Politic from Medieval Lombardy to the Dutch Republic, ed. Vasileios Syros] (2020): 1–7

Cosmopolitanism in Early Modern Jewish Political Thought

in Cosmopolitanism and Its Discontents: Rethinking Politics in the Age of Brexit and Trump, ed. Lee Ward (Lanham, MD: Lexington Books, 2020), 37–51

Ancient Greek Philosophy and the Islamic Tradition: The Origins of Social Life, Diversity, and Political Authority

Eurasian Journal of Religious Studies (Вестник КазНУ. Серия религиоведение) 22, no. 3 (2020): 42–52

Εισαγωγή του Επιμελητή

[“Editor’s Introduction”] δια-ΛΟΓΟΣ: Επετηρίδα Φιλοσοφικής Έρευνας 10 [= special issue “Διανοούμενοι και Πολιτικές Κρίσεις”/“Political Crises and Intellectuals,”ed. Vasileios Syros] (2020): 177–81 [in Greek]

Evil Lords, Benign Historians: Strongman Politics in Medieval India and Renaissance Florence

Intellectual History Review 29, no. 1 [= From Ancient Theology to Civil Religion, ed. Francesco Borghesi] (2019): 11–34

—Greek translation by Nikos Tagkoulis, “Κακόβουλοι ηγεμόνες, καλοπροαίρετοι ιστορικοί: η εξουσία του ισχυρού ηγέτη στη μεσαιωνική Ινδία και στην αναγεννησιακή Φλωρεντία,” in Vasileios Syros, Μεσαιωνική Ισλαμική πολιτική σκέψη και σύγχρονη ηγεσία (Athens: Papazissis Publishers, 2020), 67–109

Ὀθωμανικὴ πολιτικὴ σκέψη καὶ ἀρχαία ἑλληνικὴ ἰατρικὴ τὴν παραμονὴ καὶ τὴν ἐπαύριο τοῦ Κρητικοῦ Πολέμου

[“Ottoman Political Thought and Ancient Greek Medicine on the Eve and in the Wake of the Cretan War”] Cretika Chronica: Texts and Studies on Cretan History 39 [= The Cretan War (1645–1669): Aspects of the War in Space and Time, ed. Stefanos Kaklamanis] (2019): 47–68

Religious Toleration and the Limits of Liberal Secularism: The Case of India

Sikh Formations: Religion, Culture, Theory 15, nos. 3–4 (2019): 452–58 [Compare response paper by Jakob De Roover, “Religious Freedom and Cultural Asymmetry: Some Pitfalls of Secularism,” Sikh Formations 15, nos. 3–4 (2019): 476–90]

An Early Modern Jewish Observer of Ottoman Greatness

Frankel Institute Annual (2019) [= Sephardic Identities, Medieval and Early Modern]: 37–38

Mercati ex Machina: Prosperity and Economic Decline in Early Modern Jewish Political Thought

Republics of Letters (Stanford University) 6, no. 1 (2018)

‘Soft’ and ‘Hard’ Power in Islamic Political Advice Literature

in Violence in Islamic Thought from the Mongols to European Imperialism, ed. Robert Gleave and István T. Kristó-Nagy (Edinburgh: Edinburgh University Press, 2018; paperback edition 2020), 165–90

—Expanded Bosnian version; translation by Dragan Šljivić, “‘Meka’ i ‘tvrda’ moć u islamskoj literaturi političkih saveta: Saveti vladarima Ibn al-Ṭiqṭaqe i Ibn al-Muqaffe u poređenju s onima koje je dao Machiavelli” [“‘Soft’ and ‘Hard’ Power in Islamic Political Advice Literature: Counsels to Rulers by Ibn al-Ṭiqṭaqā and Ibn al-Muqaffa‘ in Comparison to Those Given by Machiavelli”] Journal of the Faculty of Philosophy in Sarajevo (History, History of Art, Archeology)/Radovi Filozofskog fakulteta u Sarajevu (Historija, Historija umjetnosti, Arheologija) 8 (2021): 231–58

—Greek translation by Nikos Tagkoulis, “«Ήπια» και «σκληρή» ισχύς στην πολιτική συμβουλευτική γραμματεία του μεσαιωνικού Ισλάμ,” in Vasileios Syros, Μεσαιωνική Ισλαμική πολιτική σκέψη και σύγχρονη ηγεσία (Athens: Papazissis Publishers, 2020), 23–66

All Roads Lead to Florence: Renaissance Jewish Thinkers and Machiavelli on Civil Strife

Viator 47, no. 1 (2016): 349–63

Behind Every Great Reformer there is a “Machiavelli”: Al–Maghīlī, Machiavelli, and the Micro–Politics of an Early Modern African and an Italian City–State

Philosophy East and West 65, no. 4 (2015): 1119–48

Scientific Evolution and Imperial Formation in Islamic and European Political Thought: Ibn Khaldūn and Louis Le Roy

Storia del pensiero politico 4, no. 1 (2015): 93–128

Galenic Medicine and Social Stability in Early Modern Florence and the Islamic Empires

Journal of Early Modern History 17, no. 2 (2013): 161–213

An Early Modern South Asian Thinker on the Rise and Decline of Empires: Shāh Walī Allāh of Delhi, the Mughals, and the Byzantines

Journal of World History 23, no. 4 (2012): 793–840

Shadows in Heaven and Clouds on Earth: The Emergence of Social Life and Political Authority in the Early Modern Islamic Empires

Viator 43, no. 2 (2012): 377–406

Indian Emergencies: Baranī’s Fatāwā-i Jahāndārī, the Diseases of the Body Politic, and Machiavelli’s accidenti

Philosophy East and West 62, no. 4 (2012): 545–73

Founders and Kings Versus Orators: Medieval and Early Modern Views on the Origins of Social Life

Viator 42, no. 1 (2011): 383–407

Did the Physician from Padua Meet the Rabbi from Cordoba? Marsilius of Padua and Moses Maimonides on the Political Utility of Religion

Revue des études juives 170, nos. 1–2 (2011): 51–71

—Partial Italian translation in Marica Costigliolo, “Uso di esempi pagani in Marsilio da Padova e Nicola da Cusa,” Rivista di ascetica e mistica 4 (2013): 1251–73, 1252–59

Forgotten Commentators Society: Aristotle’s Political Ideas in Arabic, Syriac, Byzantine, and Jewish Garb

in Well Begun is Only Half Done: Tracing Aristotle’s Political Ideas in Medieval Arabic, Syriac, Byzantine, and Jewish Sources, ed. Vasileios Syros (Tempe, AZ: Arizona Center for Medieval & Renaissance Studies, 2011), 1–16

—Greek translation by Nikos Tagkoulis, “Ο κύκλος των χαμένων υπομνηματιστών: οι πολιτικές ιδέες του Αριστοτέλη με αραβική, συριακή, βυζαντινή και εβραϊκή περιβολή,” in Η αρχή δεν είναι το ήμισυ του παντός: Ο αριστοτελικός πολιτικός στοχασμός στις μεσαιωνικές αραβικές, συριακές, βυζαντινές και εβραϊκές παραδόσεις, ed. Vasileios Syros (Athens: Institut du Livre A. Kardamitsa, 2020), 15–33

Between Chimera and Charybdis: Byzantine and Post-Byzantine Views on the Political Organization of the Italian City-States

Journal of Early Modern History 14, no. 5 (2010): 451–504

—Bulgarian translation of an abridged version by Slava Yanakieva, “Между Химера и Харибда. Византийски и поствизантийски възгледи за политическата организация на италианските градове държави,” Християнство и култура 170 (2022): 100–19

Linguistic Contextualism and Medieval Political Thought: Quentin Skinner on Marsilius of Padua

History of Political Thought 31, no. 4 (2010): 691–708

Political Treatises

in Trends in Medieval Studies, ed. Albrecht Classen (Berlin and New York: de Gruyter, 2010), 1997–2018

Marsilius of Padua

in Encyclopedia of Medieval Philosophy: Philosophy Between 500 and 1500, ed. Henrik Lagerlund (Dodrecht: Springer, 2010; 2nd ed. 2020), 717–20

Absalom’s Revolt and Value-Neutral Advice in Profiat Duran

History of Political Thought 30, no. 1 (2009): 60–74

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?

Bulletin de philosophie médiévale 50 (2008): 303–09. Reviewed in: Abstracta Iranica 31 (2008): 261–63

Ahitophel’s Advice and the ‘Reason of State’: Simone Luzzatto (1583–1663) on Absalom’s Revolt

Lias: Sources and Documents Relating to the Early Modern History of Ideas 34 (2007): 45–57

Marsilius of Padua on Political Virtues and Aristotle's Absolute Ruler

Archiv für mittelalterliche Philosophie und Kultur 13 (2007): 212–29

—Reprinted in Yavanikã: Indo-Hellenic Studies [Indian Society for Greek and Roman Studies] 12 (2009): 93–113

The Principle of the Sovereignty of the Multitude in the Works of Marsilius of Padua, Peter of Auvergne, and Some Other Aristotelian Commentators

in The World of Marsilius of Padua, ed. Gerson Moreno-Riaño (Turnhout: Brepols, 2006), 227–48

—Bulgarian translation by Martin Ossikovski, “Проблемът за общностния суверенитет при Марсилио от Падуа и някои средновековни коментатори на Аристотел,” Архив за средновековна философия и култура 15 (2009): 307–31

Review essay on Monotheistic Kingship: The Medieval Variants

ed. Aziz Al-Azmeh and János M. Bak (Budapest: Central European University, Department of Medieval Studies, 2004), The Medieval History Journal 9, no. 2 (2006): 373–78

Ἡ πρόσληψη τῆς ἀριστοτελικῆς ἔννοιας τῆς «ἐπιεικείας» στὴν πολιτικὴ σκέψη τοῦ Μαρσίλιου τῆς Πάδοβα καὶ ἡ πολιτικὴ καὶ κοινωνικὴ πραγματικότητα στὴν Πάδοβα στὸ μεταίχμιο τοῦ 13ου καὶ 14ου αἰῶνα

[= The Reception of Aristotle’s Concept of Equity in Marsilius of Padua’s Political Thought and Padua’s Political and Social Realities at the Turn of the 14th Century] Ἑῷα καὶ Ἑσπέρια: Journal of the Society for Research on the Relations of the Medieval and Modern Hellenism with the West 6 (2004–2006): 75–96

Simone Luzzatto’s Image of the Ideal Prince and the Italian Tradition of Reason of State

Redescriptions: Yearbook of Political Thought and Conceptual History 9 (2005): 157–82