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Miriam Galston

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Miriam Galston
Born1946
EducationUniversity of Chicago (Ph.D.)
SpouseWilliam A. Galston[1]
AwardsFarabi Award
Era21st-century philosophy
RegionWestern philosophy
SchoolIslamic philosophy
InstitutionsGeorge Washington University
ThesisOpinion and Knowledge in Farabi's Understanding of Aristotle's Philosophy (1973)
Doctoral advisorMuhsin Mahdi
Main interests
political philosophy

Miriam Galston (born 1946) is an American philosopher and associate professor at The George Washington University Law School. She is known for her research on Farabi[2] [3] and won the Farabi International Award for her book Politics and Excellence.[4]

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  1. ^ "Class News University of Chicago Magazine, April 1997". magazine.uchicago.edu.
  2. ^ Abed, Shukri (1993). "Politics and Excellence: The Political Philosophy of Alfarabi (review)". Journal of the History of Philosophy. 31 (3): 461–463. doi:10.1353/hph.1993.0056. ISSN 1538-4586. S2CID 147561643.
  3. ^ Walbridge, John (August 1992). "Miriam Galston, Politics and Excellence: The Political Philosophy of Alfarabi, (Princeton, N.J.: Princeton University Press, 1990). Pp. 251". International Journal of Middle East Studies. 24 (3): 534–536. doi:10.1017/S0020743800022194. ISSN 1471-6380. S2CID 145172519.
  4. ^ "Miriam Galston" (PDF). Archived from the original (PDF) on 2020-03-12. Retrieved 2019-12-18.