Politics, religion, and love: How leo strauss read the arabian nights
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2020-04-01
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Namazi, R (2020). Politics, religion, and love: How leo strauss read the arabian nights. Journal of Religion, 100(2). pp. 189–231. 10.1086/707526 Retrieved from https://hdl.handle.net/10161/23501.
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Rasoul Namazi
Rasoul Namazi's research focuses on the comparative analysis of Islamic and Western political thought. His book, Leo Strauss and Islamic Political Thought (Cambridge University Press, 2022), received the Delba Winthrop Award for Excellence in Political Science and was the subject of a symposium in The Review of Politics. This work offers a comprehensive study of Leo Strauss’s writings on Islamic political thought. He is also the co-editor of Leo Strauss on Religion: Writings and Interpretations (SUNY Press, 2024) and is currently working on a book-length study of early Islamic political thought in the Quran.
Namazi's research has appeared in Comparative Political Theory, Review of Politics, Journal of Religion, Perspectives on Political Science, American Political Thought, Iranian Studies, Interpretation, Renaissance & Reformation, and Eurorient, as well as in several edited volumes.
A laureate of the Prix Raymond Aron, Namazi holds a Ph.D. in Political Theory from École des Hautes Études en Sciences Sociales (EHESS), an M.A. in Political Philosophy and Ethics from Université Paris-Sorbonne, an M.A. in Political Studies from EHESS, and a B.A. in Political Science from the University of Tehran Central. Before joining Duke Kunshan University, he was an Alexander von Humboldt Postdoctoral Fellow at Ludwig Maximilian University of Munich (2019–2021) and a Postdoctoral Scholar at the Committee on Social Thought, University of Chicago (2016–2018).
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