This article seeks to reconstruct the prevailing concepts, images and principles that framed sovereign governance in the Mughal and Ottoman empires in the early seventeenth century. Little is known about the subject. To help fill the gap, two contemporaneous advice-to-kings treatises—one Mughal by ʿAbd al-Ḥaqq Dihlavī, one Ottoman by Koçi Bey—are analysed in juxtaposition. Such an analysis, never previously undertaken, is motivated and guided by a novel approach. In this approach, a model founded on near-universal conditions and problems is deployed within a regional perspective. The findings which result advance our understanding of the art of governance in the Mughal and Ottoman empires of the time. But they have a larger importance, too. They move us closer to achieving a break with the decline paradigm, whose logic still persists in mainstream interpretations. They also contribute to a more recent, and rapidly developing, interest in a region spanning much of South Asia and the Middle East that was formative for the global genesis of the modern world.

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治理艺术的知识：17世纪初的莫卧儿帝国和奥斯曼帝国

本文旨在重构 17 世纪早期莫卧儿帝国和奥斯曼帝国的主权治理的普遍概念、形象和原则。关于这个主题知之甚少。为了填补这一空白，两篇同时期的国王忠告论文——一篇是 ʿAbd al-Ḥaqq Dihlavī 的莫卧儿帝国，一篇是 Koçi Bey 的奥斯曼帝国——被并列分析。这种以前从未进行过的分析是由一种新颖的方法推动和指导的。在这种方法中，基于近乎普遍的条件和问题的模型被部署在区域视角内。研究结果促进了我们对当时莫卧儿和奥斯曼帝国治理艺术的理解。但它们也具有更大的重要性。它们使我们更接近于与衰退范式决裂，其逻辑仍然存在于主流解释中。它们还促成了对一个跨越南亚和中东大部分地区的最近和快速发展的兴趣，该地区对现代世界的全球起源起到了塑造作用。