Leo Strauss and Islamic Political Thought

Rasoul Namazi is an Assistant Professor of Political Theory at Duke Kunshan University in China. A laureate of Prix Raymond Aron, he has held fellowships from Committee on Social Thought, University of Chicago and the Alexander von Humboldt Stiftung, Ludwig Maximilian University in Munich. He is the author of articles and chapters on Islamic and Western political thought published in Journal of Religion, Perspectives on Political Science, American Political Thought, Iranian Studies, Interpretation, Review of Politics, Renaissance & Reformation, and Eurorient as well as in collected volumes.

'Rasoul Namazi's excellent study is written in an English style superior to that of most native speakers. His careful, focused, and thoughtful examination of Strauss's writing on Islamic thought could very easily inspire other valuable books, such as Strauss on Hobbes, Spinoza, Locke, and the Founding of Modern Liberalism or Strauss on French Political Philosophy, from Montaigne to Rousseau.' Alexander Orwin, Louisiana State University

• 1. Averroes between platonic philosophy and the Sharīʻa; 2. Politics, religion, and love: How Leo Strauss read the Arabian Nights; 3. From Alfarabi's Plato to Strauss's Alfarabi; 4. Strauss, Alfarabi, and Plato's Laws.