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Notes

  1. For two useful commentaries, see Smith (2006), 87–107; and Ferrari (1997).

  2. Other works that fall into this genre include Smith (2006); Tanguay (2007); Janssens (2008); and Pelluchon (2014).

  3. One of the few historians to appreciate this is Momigliano (1994), pp. 178–189.

  4. For a partial biography that takes Strauss’s life only up to 1948, see Sheppard (2006); although Tanguay (2007) subtitles his book “An Intellectual Biography,” there is little biographical about it.

  5. The importance of Alfarabi has been emphasized especially by Brague (1998); see more recently, Namazi (2022).

  6. I have discussed this in Smith (2017).

  7. For a useful exploration of this theme, see Griswold (1988).

  8. The term is a riff on Lincoln’s “Crisis of the House Divided” speech.

  9. The phrase attributed to Julian is Vicisti, Galilee; the version quoted here is from Swinburn’s poem “Hymn to Proserpine.”

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Smith, S.B. Review of Two Books. Soc 60, 122–127 (2023). https://doi.org/10.1007/s12115-023-00810-7

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