Waseem El-Rayes is Associate Professor of Political Theory at James Madison College, Michigan State University. He specializes in political philosophy with a focus on ancient Greek and medieval Islamic political thought, including the work of Plato, Aristotle, al-Fārābī, al-Ghāzālī, Ibn Rushd, and Ibn Khaldūn. His research examines the contrast between ancient-medieval and modern thought with respect to the problem of political legitimacy as well as the relationship between piety and politics. A
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