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Rasoul Namazi

Rasoul Namazi

Associate Professor of Political Theory at Duke Kunshan University
DKU Faculty

Scholarly Works - Journal articles

Editors' Introduction

Journal article Leo Strauss on Religion Writings and Interpretations · October 1, 2024 Full text Cite

Author's Response

Journal article Review of Politics · January 1, 2024 Full text Cite

Author's Introduction

Journal article Review of Politics · January 1, 2024 Full text Cite

The Place of Ibn ʿArabi in the Theologico-Political Thought of Ahmad Fardid

Journal article Religiographies · 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 ... Full text Open Access Link to item Cite

Islamic Political Thought and the “Constitution of Medina”

Journal article Comparative 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 ... Full text Open Access Cite

Machiavelli’s Critique of Classical Philosophy and His Case for The Political Life

Journal article Perspectives 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 ... Full text Open Access Cite

“Religion and the Commonweal in the Tradition of Political Philosophy”: An Unpublished Lecture by Leo Strauss

Journal article American 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 ... Full text Open Access Cite

Ayatollah Khomeini: From Islamic Government to Sovereign State

Journal article Iranian 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 ... Full text Cite

Leo strauss on thomas hobbes and plato: Two previously unpublished lectures

Journal article Perspectives 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 ... Full text Open Access Cite

The question of esoteric writing in Machiavelli’s works

Journal article Renaissance 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 ... Full text Open Access Cite

Leo Strauss on Modern Political Science:Two Previously Unpublished Manuscripts

Journal article Review 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 ... Full text Open Access Cite