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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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
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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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Averroes and Hegel on Religion and Philosophy: Discussing Catarina Belo’s Recent Book, 2016
By: Massimo Campanini
Title Averroes and Hegel on Religion and Philosophy: Discussing Catarina Belo’s Recent Book
Type Article
Language English
Date 2016
Journal Oriente Moderno
Volume 96
Issue 2
Pages 329–335
Categories Review
Author(s) Massimo Campanini
Publisher(s)
Translator(s)
Review of Catarina Belo's "Averroes and Hegel on Religion and Philosophy"

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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
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Translator(s)

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Averroes' Hermeneutics of the Qurʾān, 2007
By: Massimo Campanini
Title Averroes' Hermeneutics of the Qurʾān
Type Book Section
Language English
Date 2007
Published in Averroes et les Averroïsmes juif et latin. Actes du Colloque International. Paris, 16–18 juin 2005
Pages 215–229
Categories Theology
Author(s) Massimo Campanini
Publisher(s)
Translator(s)

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Averroè, 2007
By: Massimo Campanini
Title Averroè
Type Monograph
Language undefined
Date 2007
Publication Place Bologna
Publisher Il Mulino
Series Universale Paperbacks Il Mulino
Volume 528
Categories Particular Aspects throughout the Oeuvre
Author(s) Massimo Campanini
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Averroè lettore di Aristotele. Un problema politico?, 2004
By: Massimo Campanini
Title Averroè lettore di Aristotele. Un problema politico?
Type Book Section
Language Italian
Date 2004
Published in Averroes and the Aristotelian Heritage
Pages 35–47
Categories Influence, Politics
Author(s) Massimo Campanini
Publisher(s)
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Edizioni e traduzioni di Averroè tra XIV e XVI secolo, 2003
By: Massimo Campanini
Title Edizioni e traduzioni di Averroè tra XIV e XVI secolo
Type Book Section
Language Italian
Date 2003
Published in Lexiques et glossaires philosophiques de la Renaissance
Pages 21–42
Categories Tradition and Reception, Renaissance
Author(s) Massimo Campanini
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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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Averroes and Hegel on Religion and Philosophy: Discussing Catarina Belo’s Recent Book, 2016
By: Massimo Campanini
Title Averroes and Hegel on Religion and Philosophy: Discussing Catarina Belo’s Recent Book
Type Article
Language English
Date 2016
Journal Oriente Moderno
Volume 96
Issue 2
Pages 329–335
Categories Review
Author(s) Massimo Campanini
Publisher(s)
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Review of Catarina Belo's "Averroes and Hegel on Religion and Philosophy"

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Averroes' Hermeneutics of the Qurʾān, 2007
By: Massimo Campanini
Title Averroes' Hermeneutics of the Qurʾān
Type Book Section
Language English
Date 2007
Published in Averroes et les Averroïsmes juif et latin. Actes du Colloque International. Paris, 16–18 juin 2005
Pages 215–229
Categories Theology
Author(s) Massimo Campanini
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Averroè, 2007
By: Massimo Campanini
Title Averroè
Type Monograph
Language undefined
Date 2007
Publication Place Bologna
Publisher Il Mulino
Series Universale Paperbacks Il Mulino
Volume 528
Categories Particular Aspects throughout the Oeuvre
Author(s) Massimo Campanini
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Averroè lettore di Aristotele. Un problema politico?, 2004
By: Massimo Campanini
Title Averroè lettore di Aristotele. Un problema politico?
Type Book Section
Language Italian
Date 2004
Published in Averroes and the Aristotelian Heritage
Pages 35–47
Categories Influence, Politics
Author(s) Massimo Campanini
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Edizioni e traduzioni di Averroè tra XIV e XVI secolo, 2003
By: Massimo Campanini
Title Edizioni e traduzioni di Averroè tra XIV e XVI secolo
Type Book Section
Language Italian
Date 2003
Published in Lexiques et glossaires philosophiques de la Renaissance
Pages 21–42
Categories Tradition and Reception, Renaissance
Author(s) Massimo Campanini
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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
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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
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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
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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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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
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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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