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Athens, Jerusalem, Mecca: Leo Strauss's "Muslim" Understanding of Greek Philosophy

The contrast "Athens vs. Jerusalem" played a major part in the late work of Leo Strauss (1899-1973). His scholarly career, from the outset, can be described as a motion from Jerusalem (Spinoza, Maimonides) to Athens (Plato, Xenophon). Nevertheless, a third city, Mecca, and what it stands f...

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Published in:	Poetics today 1998-07, Vol.19 (2), p.235-259
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