Leo Strauss (1899-1973) in among the prominent political philosophers of the 20th century, whose political philosophy enjoys a particular generality which includes the entire classic, the middle and the modern ears. His ideas in political philosophy were always interesting to those interested in political sciences. He is also an Orientalist whose novel ideas about Islamic political philosophy are still unknown to the researchers of the field. This paper is to present part of his ideas concerning "the methodology of Islamic political philosophy". According to Strauss the occultationalism present in the Islamic political philosophy had the consequence that a true understanding of the philosophy could not form. The phenomenon tells us that to understand the classic political texts one cannot resort to the present dominant "Progressivist" and "historicist" approaches but that one should use the method based on "the real historical understanding".
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