Alexander Orwin

Affiliated Scholar

Louisiana State University

Email: [email protected]
Website: Personal / faculty page

Biography

Alexander Orwin is Associate Professor of Political Science at Louisiana State University, with a focus on Islamic Political Thought. He received a BA in Classics and Political Science from the University of Toronto and PhD from the Committee on Social Thought at the University of Chicago. In between, he lived and studied in Israel, Egypt, and France.

Selected publications

Book · 2017 Redefining the Muslim Community: Ethnicity, Religion, and Politics in the Thought of Alfarabi University of Pennsylvania Press
Article · 2022 The Double Life of Ibn Bajja: A Platonic Philosopher among the Potentates of His Time Polis: The Journal for Ancient Greek and Roman Political Thought How Ibn Bajja praised Plato while quietly reworking him, separating the philosophers' city from ordinary politics.
Article · 2015 Democracy under the Caliphs: Alfarabi's Unusual Understanding of Popular Rule The Review of Politics Explains Alfarabi's unusual account of democracy in light of medieval Arabic usage and the politics of his time.
Article · 2014 Can Humankind Deliberate on a Global Scale? Alfarabi and the Politics of the Inhabited World American Political Science Review Alfarabi on why the whole inhabited world can never be governed or deliberate as one political community.

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