Title | Philosophy before the Law. Averroës's Decisive Treatise |
Type | Article |
Language | English |
Date | 2006 |
Journal | Critical Inquiry |
Volume | 32 |
Issue | 3 |
Pages | 412–442 |
Categories | Theology, Law, Relation between Philosophy and Theology |
Author(s) | Daniel Heller-Roazen |
Publisher(s) | |
Translator(s) |
Online Access | https://www.jstor.org/stable/41959085 |
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Title | L'Islam et la raison. Anthologie de textes juridiques, théologiques et polémiques |
Type | Monograph |
Language | undefined |
Date | 2000 |
Publication Place | Paris |
Publisher | Flammarion |
Categories | Theology, Law, Relation between Philosophy and Theology |
Author(s) | Averroes , |
Publisher(s) | |
Translator(s) | Marc Geoffroy |
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Title | Pour Averroès |
Type | Book Section |
Language | French |
Date | 2000 |
Published in | L'Islam et la raison. Anthologie de textes juridiques, théologiques et polémiques |
Pages | 9–76 |
Categories | Theology, Law, Relation between Philosophy and Theology |
Author(s) | Alain de Libera |
Publisher(s) | |
Translator(s) |
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Title | Le Livre du discours décisif |
Type | Monograph |
Language | undefined |
Date | 1996 |
Publication Place | Paris |
Publisher | Flammarion |
Categories | Theology, Law, Relation between Philosophy and Theology |
Author(s) | Averroes , |
Publisher(s) | |
Translator(s) | Marc Geoffroy |
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Title | Pour Averroès |
Type | Book Section |
Language | French |
Date | 2000 |
Published in | L'Islam et la raison. Anthologie de textes juridiques, théologiques et polémiques |
Pages | 9–76 |
Categories | Theology, Law, Relation between Philosophy and Theology |
Author(s) | Alain de Libera |
Publisher(s) | |
Translator(s) |
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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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Title | The Oxford Handbook of Islamic Philosophy |
Type | Edited Book |
Language | English |
Date | 2016 |
Publication Place | New York, NY |
Publisher | Oxford University Press |
Series | Oxford handbooks |
Categories | Theology, Relation between Philosophy and Theology, Metaphysics, Law, Logic |
Author(s) | Khaled El-Rouayheb , Sabine Schmidtke |
Publisher(s) | |
Translator(s) |
The study of Islamic philosophy has recently entered a new and exciting phase. Both the received canon of Islamic philosophers and the grand narrative of the course of Islamic philosophy are in the process of being radically questioned and revised. The bulk of twentieth-century Western scholarship on Arabic or Islamic philosophy focused on the period from the ninth century to the twelfth. It is a measure of the transformation that is currently underway in the field that the present Handbook gives roughly equal weight to every century from the ninth to the twentieth. The Handbook differs from previous overviews in another significant way: It is work-centered rather than person- or theme-centered. This format is intended to give readers a better sense of what a work in Islamic philosophy looks like, and of the issues, concepts, and arguments that are at play in works belonging to various periods and subfields within Islamic philosophy. |
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Title | The Sharīʿa of the Republic: Islamic Law and Philosophy in Averroes’s Commentary on Plato’s “Republic” |
Type | Book Section |
Language | English |
Date | 2022 |
Published in | Plato's Republic in the Islamic Context. New Perspectives on Averroes's Commentary |
Pages | 160–181 |
Categories | Law, Theology, Relation between Philosophy and Theology |
Author(s) | Rasoul Namazi |
Publisher(s) | |
Translator(s) |
Averroes is one of the few Muslim philosophers whose work has had a considerable impact on European thought; the phenomenon of Averroism has been a part of the common European intellectual heritage for several centuries. One of the most enduring and widely held views, or rather myths, about Averroes for centuries has been that he was a fierce enemy of religion. This view was partly rejected by Ernest Renan's classic nineteenth-century study, in which he critiqued what he called “la legende d’Averroes.” Although a spirited follower of the Enlightenment's cult of science and battle against superstition, and despite his admiration for Averroes as a figure who tried to keep the spirit of reason alive during religious ages, Renan remained unconvinced by the charges leveled against the Arab philosopher. He tried to show how much this view of Averroes was a construction of the European mind in its own battles over heterodoxy and free thought. Renan did not, however, settle for a narrative about the intellectual history of European Averroism, but went beyond this, depicting Averroes's rationalism and Islamic beliefs as two separate, independent spheres that tend not to conflict with each other. That is to say, Averroes could have been a good Muslim as well as a good philosopher. The historicist presuppositions of Renan's thought, however—presuppositions according to which every system of thought is a product of its own time—made his perspective on Averroes incoherent and open to future revisions. Leon Gauthier, although critical of Renan, also tried to circumvent the question of the relationship between Islam and philosophy in Averroes's work. He did this by depicting Islam as a religion without substantial doctrinal content, thereby making possible its compatibility with Greek philosophy. Gauthier therefore claimed that Averroes's thought could be seen as “un rationalisme sans reserve [an unqualified rationalism]” without necessarily rendering Averroes an unbeliever. Scholars like A. F. Mehren, Max Horten, and Asìn Palacio avoided such unsatisfactory solutions by wholeheartedly embracing the view that, in the end, Islamic philosophy is more Islamic than philosophic. They argued that the Islamic philosophy of the falāsifa is an outgrowth of Islamic beliefs expressed in the language of Greek philosophy, and fully in the service of Muslim revelation; therefore, according to these scholars, there is no real conflict between Averroes's philosophy and the tenets of Islam. |
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That is to say, Averroes could have been a good Muslim as well as a good philosopher. The historicist presuppositions of Renan's thought, however\u2014presuppositions according to which every system of thought is a product of its own time\u2014made his perspective on Averroes incoherent and open to future revisions. Leon Gauthier, although critical of Renan, also tried to circumvent the question of the relationship between Islam and philosophy in Averroes's work. He did this by depicting Islam as a religion without substantial doctrinal content, thereby making possible its compatibility with Greek philosophy. Gauthier therefore claimed that Averroes's thought could be seen as \u201cun rationalisme sans reserve [an unqualified rationalism]\u201d without necessarily rendering Averroes an unbeliever. Scholars like A. F. Mehren, Max Horten, and As\u00ecn Palacio avoided such unsatisfactory solutions by wholeheartedly embracing the view that, in the end, Islamic philosophy is more Islamic than philosophic. They argued that the Islamic philosophy of the fal\u0101sifa is an outgrowth of Islamic beliefs expressed in the language of Greek philosophy, and fully in the service of Muslim revelation; therefore, according to these scholars, there is no real conflict between Averroes's philosophy and the tenets of Islam.","btype":2,"date":"2022","language":"English","online_url":"","doi_url":"https:\/\/doi.org\/10.1017\/9781800104983.008","ti_url":"","categories":[{"id":26,"category_name":"Law","link":"bib?categories[]=Law"},{"id":39,"category_name":"Theology","link":"bib?categories[]=Theology"},{"id":47,"category_name":"Relation between Philosophy and Theology","link":"bib?categories[]=Relation between Philosophy and Theology"}],"authors":[],"works":[],"republication_of":null,"translation_of":null,"new_edition_of":null,"book":null,"booksection":{"id":5353,"section_of":5346,"pages":"160\u2013181","is_catalog":null,"book":{"id":5346,"bilderberg_idno":null,"dare_idno":null,"catalog_idno":null,"entry_type":"bibliography","type":4,"language":"en","title":"Plato's Republic in the Islamic Context. 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