Leo Strauss and Islamic Political Thought
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Leo Strauss and Islamic Political Thought

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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 thought. He critically analyzes Strauss's notes on Averroes' commentary on Plato's Republicand also proposes an interpretation of Strauss' theologico-political notes on the Arabian Nights. Namazi also interprets Strauss' essay on Alfarabi's enigmatic treatise, The Philosophy of Plato and provides a detailed commentary on his complex essay devoted to Alfarabi's summary of Plato's Laws. Based on previously unpublished material from Strauss' papers, Namazi's volume provides new insights into Strauss' reflections on religion, philosophy, and politics, and their relationship to wisdom, persecution, divine law, and unbelief in the works of key Muslim thinkers. His work presents Strauss as one of the most innovative historians and scholars of Islamic thought of all time.

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Publisher
Cambridge University Press
Year
2022
ISBN
9781009116305
Topic
Philosophy
Subtopic
Political Philosophy

Table of contents

  1. Cover
  2. Half-title page
  3. Title page
  4. Copyright page
  5. Dedication
  6. Epigraph
  7. Contents
  8. Preface
  9. Acknowledgments
  10. Note on Citations
  11. Introduction
  12. 1 Averroes between Platonic Philosophy and the Sharīʻa
  13. 2 Politics, Religion, and Love: How Leo Strauss Read the Arabian Nights
  14. 3 From Alfarabi’s Plato to Strauss’s Alfarabi
  15. 4 Strauss, Alfarabi, and Plato’s Laws
  16. Appendix A: Leo Strauss’s Notes on Averroes’s Commentary on Plato’s Republic
  17. Appendix B: Leo Strauss’s Notes on the Arabian Nights
  18. Appendix C: Table of Concordance of the Arabian Nights
  19. Appendix D: Paragraph Headings of “How Fārābī Read Plato’s Laws”
  20. Bibliography
  21. Index