AVERROÈ (1198-1998), 1999
By: Massimo Campanini
Title AVERROÈ (1198-1998)
Type Article
Language Italian
Date 1999
Journal Rivista di Storia della Filosofia (1984-)
Volume 54
Issue 3
Pages 465-471
Categories Surveys, Tradition and Reception
Author(s) Massimo Campanini
Publisher(s)
Translator(s)

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L'intelligenza della fede. Filosofia e religione in Averroe e nell'averroismo, 1989
By: Massimo Campanini (Ed.)
Title L'intelligenza della fede. Filosofia e religione in Averroe e nell'averroismo
Type Edited Book
Language undefined
Date 1989
Publication Place Bergamo
Publisher P. Lubrina
Series Quodlibet
Volume 5
Categories Theology
Author(s) Massimo Campanini
Publisher(s)
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Per una lettura sociologica del Fasl di Averroè, 1988
By: Massimo Campanini
Title Per una lettura sociologica del Fasl di Averroè
Type Article
Language Italian
Date 1988
Journal Rivista di storia della filosofia
Volume 43
Pages 103–112
Categories Theology
Author(s) Massimo Campanini
Publisher(s)
Translator(s)

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Filosofia e religione in Averroè, 1984
By: Massimo Campanini
Title Filosofia e religione in Averroè
Type Article
Language Italian
Date 1984
Journal Islàm. Storia e civiltà
Volume 3
Pages 9–15
Categories Theology
Author(s) Massimo Campanini
Publisher(s)
Translator(s)

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Averroè e Giordano Bruno sulla religione: metamorfosi della credenza
By: Massimo Campanini
Title Averroè e Giordano Bruno sulla religione: metamorfosi della credenza
Type Article
Language English
Journal Bruniana & Campanelliana
Volume 22
Issue 2
Pages 395-409
Categories Tradition and Reception, Averroism, Averroism
Author(s) Massimo Campanini
Publisher(s)
Translator(s)
Although personally he had been a practicing Muslim, in the Western philosophical tradition Averroes has always had a reputation for being an unbeliever. Some aspects of Averroes’ thought, including the doctrine of the so-called ‘double truth’ and his noetic, could justify such a misinterpretation. Also Giordano Bruno can be labeled as an ‘averroistic’ unbeliever, but only because he viewed the historical religions as nomoi, ‘fake’ laws with the purpose of ruling the masses. The metamorphosis of Averroes from belief to disbelief, even through Bruno, has prepared the ground for the libertine tradition of the seventeenth and later centuries.

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L'être et la langue dans le Tahāfut al-Tahāfut d'Averroès, 2001
By: Massimo Campanini
Title L'être et la langue dans le Tahāfut al-Tahāfut d'Averroès
Type Book Section
Language French
Date 2001
Published in Actualité d'Averroès. Colloque du huitième centenaire. Carthage, 16–21 février 1998
Pages 113–118
Categories Relation between Philosophy and Theology
Author(s) Massimo Campanini
Publisher(s)
Translator(s)

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Maestros de Occidente. Estudios sobre el pensamiento andalusi (review), 2009
By: Massimo Campanini
Title Maestros de Occidente. Estudios sobre el pensamiento andalusi (review)
Type Article
Language English
Date 2009
Journal Philosophy East and West
Volume 59
Issue 1
Pages 107–108
Categories Review
Author(s) Massimo Campanini
Publisher(s)
Translator(s)

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Ontology of intellect. The happiness of thinking in Averroës and Giordano Bruno, 2016
By: Massimo Campanini
Title Ontology of intellect. The happiness of thinking in Averroës and Giordano Bruno
Type Article
Language English
Date 2016
Journal Synthesis Philosophica
Volume 62
Issue 2
Pages 335–344
Categories Renaissance, Averroism
Author(s) Massimo Campanini
Publisher(s)
Translator(s)
In this paper the author reflects comparatively on a specific issue dealt with by Giordano Bruno and Ibn Rushd: mental happiness. Mental happiness is intended here either as felicity through thinking or as felicity of thinking. The philosophical link between Averroës and Giordano Bruno is by now soundly established and the paper is rather a theoretical than an historical analysis regarding Bruno’s “Averroism”.

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Per una lettura sociologica del Fasl di Averroè, 1988
By: Massimo Campanini
Title Per una lettura sociologica del Fasl di Averroè
Type Article
Language Italian
Date 1988
Journal Rivista di storia della filosofia
Volume 43
Pages 103–112
Categories Theology
Author(s) Massimo Campanini
Publisher(s)
Translator(s)

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The Decisive Treatise: The Connection Between Islamic Religious Law and Philosophy, 2017
By: Averroes, Massimo Campanini (Ed.)
Title The Decisive Treatise: The Connection Between Islamic Religious Law and Philosophy
Type Monograph
Language English
Date 2017
Publication Place Piscataway, NJ
Publisher Gorgias Press
Series Gorgias Islamic Studies
Volume 7
Categories Law, Theology, Relation between Philosophy and Theology
Author(s) Averroes , Massimo Campanini
Publisher(s)
Translator(s) Massimo Campanini
The Decisive Treatise is perhaps the most controversial work of Averroes (Ibn Rushd, 1126-1198) and belongs to a trilogy which boldly represent the philosophical contribution to Islamic theology of this famous Andalusian commentator on Aristotle. The Decisive Treatise is a fatwa (a legal opinion) that the judge, Averroes, promulgated for his fellow Malikite jurists in order to demonstrate that the study of philosophy is not only licit from the point of view of religious law, but even mandatory for the skilled people. However, many subjects are dealt with in this comparatively short book: An epistemology aimed to show that philosophical truth and religious truth are not in contradiction; a sociology of knowledge pointing out that humans are classified in three classes (philosophers, theologians, common folk); a Qur’anic hermeneutics suggesting how to approach philosophically the Holy Book in agreement with religious requirements and linguistic rules.

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