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Josh Hayes is Associate Professor of Philosophy in the Department of Humanities at Alvernia University and Associate Fellow at the King Faisal Center for Research and Islamic Studies. His research addresses the comparative intersection between ancient Greek philosophy, medieval Islamic philosophy, and contemporary continental philosophy. Recent publications include 'Al-Farabi's Cosmopolitical Imaginaries' (Journal of Social Imaginaries, 2024), 'Configurations of Shame from Ancient Greece to Medieval Islam,' (Cultures of Shame, Routledge, 2023), 'Al-Farabi's Phenomenology of the Political Imagination,' (Iranian Yearbook of Phenomenology, 2020) and 'Cosmos and Community: A History of Medieval Islamic Cosmopolitanism' (Edinburgh Critical History of Middle Ages and Renaissance Philosophy, Edinburgh University Press, 2020). His edited volumes include From Philosophy to Falsafa: A Graeco-Arabic Dialogue (Bloomsbury, forthcoming), Heidegger and the Islamicate World (Rowman and Littlefield Press, 2019) and Aristotle and the Arabic Tradition (Cambridge University Press, 2015).