Prof. Dr. Rasoul Namazi

Profile

Academic positionAssociate Professor, Senior Lecturer, Reader
Research fieldsHistory of Philosophy,Principles of Law and Jurisprudence
KeywordsPolitical Theory, Islamic Political Theory, Political Philosophy, Alfarabi, Leo Strauss
Honours and awards

2024: The Delba Winthrop Award for Excellence in Political Science

2014: Iranian Ministry of Culture 2014 Prize for the translation of Leo Strauss, The City and Man.

2014: Raymond Aron Prize for the PhD Dissertation

Current contact address

CountryPeople's Republic of China
CityKunshan
InstitutionDuke Kunshan University
InstituteDivision of Social Sciences
Homepagehttps://scholars.duke.edu/person/rasoul.namazi

Host during sponsorship

Prof. Dr. Heinrich MeierFakultät für Philosophie, Wissenschaftstheorie und Religionswissenschaft, Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München (LMU), München
Start of initial sponsorship01/03/2019

Programme(s)

2018Humboldt Research Fellowship Programme for Postdocs

Publications (partial selection)

2024Namazi, Rasoul: Leo Strauss and Jean-Jacques Rousseau: Ancients and Moderns, Esotericism, and the Challenge of Religion. In: Namazi, Rasoul and Minkov, Svetozar, Leo Strauss on Religion: Writings and Interpretations. SUNY Press, 2024. 259--273
2024Namazi, Rasoul and Svetozar Minkov: Leo Strauss on religion: writings and interpretations. State University of New York Press, 2024
2024Namazi, Rasoul and Bostani, Ahmad: The Place of Ibn ʿArabī in the Theologico-Political Thought of Ahmad Fardid. In: Religiographies, 3, 2024, 46--63
2023Namazi, Rasoul and Mirabian Tabar, Mehdi: Hegel in Iran. Appropriations of Hegelian Thought in Iranian Debates on Modernity, Islam, and Nationalism. In: Global Intellectual History, 8, 2023, 163--185
2023Namazi, Rasoul: Islamic Political Thought and the “Constitution of Medina”. In: Comparative Political Theory, 3, 2023, 129--153
2022Namazi, Rasoul: Leo Strauss and Islamic Political Thought. Cambridge University Press, 2022
2022Namazi, Rasoul: The Sharī’a of The Republic: Islamic Law and Philosophy in Averroes’s Commentary on Plato’s Republic. In: Orwin, Alexander, Plato's Republic in the Islamic Context: New Perspectives on Averroes's Commentary. University of Rochester Press, 2022. 160--181
2021Namazi, Rasoul: Alfarabi as Leo Strauss’s Teacher of Platonic Esoteric Writing. Leo Strauss’s Rediscovery of Esotericism and its Islamic Origin. In: Sedgwick, Mark and Piraino, Francesco, Esoteric Transfers and Constructions. Judaism, Christianity, and Islam. Springer International Publishing, 2021. 131--149
2021Namazi, Rasoul: Machiavelli’s Critique of Classical Philosophy and His Case for The Political Life. In: Perspectives on Political Science, 50, 2021, 171--181
2021Namazi, Rasoul and Svetozar Minkov: “Religion and the Commonweal in the Tradition of Political Philosophy.” An Unpublished Lecture by Leo Strauss. In: American Political Thought, 10, 2021, 86--120
2020Namazi, Rasoul: Politics, Religion, and Love. How Leo Strauss Read the Arabian Nights. In: The Journal of Religion, 100, 2020, 189--231
2019Namazi, Rasoul: Ayatollah Khomeini. From Islamic Government to Sovereign State. In: Iranian Studies, 2019, 1--21
2018Namazi, Rasoul: Leo Strauss on Thomas Hobbes and Plato. Two Previously Unpublished Lectures. In: Perspectives on Political Science, 2018, 1--18
2017Namazi, Rasoul: Leo Strauss on Machiavelli’s The Prince and the Discourses. A Recently Discovered Lecture. In: Interpretation, 43, 2017, 431--61
2017Namazi, Rasoul and Minkov, Svetozar: Leo Strauss on Modern Political Science: Two Previously Unpublished Manuscripts. In: Review of Politics, 79, 2017, 413--425
2017Namazi, Rasoul: The Question of Esoteric Writing in Machiavelli’s Works. In: Renaissance and Reformation, 40, 2017, 7--33
2017Namazi, Rasoul: The Qur’an, Reason, and Revelation. Islamic Revelation and Its Relationship with Reason and Philosophy. In: Interpretation, 43, 2017, 403--31
2016Namazi, Rasoul: Aramesh Dustdar. Religiosity and Persian decline. In: Analytica Iranica, VIII, 2016, 99--137