Book · October 2024
Intriguing unpublished manuscripts by Leo Strauss, which explore the intricate relationship between religion, philosophy, and politics, accompanied by fourteen interpretative essays. ...
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Journal ArticleReligiographies · 2024
Ahmad Fardid (1904/10-1994), a prominent Iranian philosopher, is considered by his followers and detractors to be among the most influential twentieth-century Iranian thinkers and philosophical the-oreticians of the post-revolutionary Islamic regime in Ira ...
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Journal ArticleComparative Political Theory · January 1, 2023
The present inquiry is a contribution to the study of early Islamic political thought focusing on the earliest document of Islamic political doctrine, the so-called Constitution of Medina. What particularly distinguishes the procedure followed here is the ...
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Book · June 30, 2022
In this book, Rasoul Namazi offers the first in-depth study of Leo Strauss' writings on Islamic political thought, a topic that interested Strauss over the course of his career. Namazi's volume focuses on several important studies by Strauss on Islamic tho ...
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Chapter · April 15, 2022
The first collection of essays devoted to the Arabic philosopher Averroes's brilliant Commentary on Plato's Republic, which survived the medieval period only in Hebrew and Latin translations. ...
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Journal ArticlePerspectives on Political Science · January 1, 2021
This article illuminates how Machiavelli’s critique of classical philosophy is fundamental to his teaching. It will argue that Machiavelli criticized classical philosophy for its ineffectiveness and its endorsement of the leisurely philosophic life as the ...
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Journal ArticleAmerican Political Thought · January 1, 2021
The transcript published here for the first time is of Leo Strauss’s 1963 lecture on, and discussion of, the relation of religion to the commonweal in the tradition of political philosophy. In this lecture, Strauss considers the question of the establishme ...
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Journal ArticleIranian Studies · March 4, 2019
This paper argues that the mature form of the political doctrine of the Ayatollah Khomeini (1902–89), Iranian Shiite religious authority and architect of the Islamic Republic of Iran, grew out of an encounter with the modern understanding of the state and ...
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Journal ArticlePerspectives on Political Science · October 2, 2018
In recent years, there has been a considerable increase of interest in the thought and writings of Leo Strauss. This renewed interest has led to the discovery and publication of writings and lectures which heretofore have been available only to few scholar ...
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Journal ArticleRenaissance and Reformation · March 1, 2017
The question addressed by this article is whether esotericism or secret teachings exist in Machiavelli’s writings. This question has been a major point of contention between the commentators of Machiavelli, with many denying the existence of esoteric teach ...
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Journal ArticleReview of Politics · January 1, 2017
The two manuscripts published here for the first time were written by Leo Strauss: the first in 1956 and the second between 1957 and 1962. The first, entitled Lecture in Milwaukee: Michigan Midwest Political Science, was written for the Fourteenth Annual M ...
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