Ibn Rushd in the Safavid Iran: “En Orient, après Averroès … ” Revisited, 2023
By: Fouad Ben Ahmed
Title Ibn Rushd in the Safavid Iran: “En Orient, après Averroès … ” Revisited
Type Article
Language English
Date 2023
Journal Intellectual history of the Islamicate world
Pages 1-29
Categories Transmission, Tradition and Reception
Author(s) Fouad Ben Ahmed
Publisher(s)
Translator(s)
Tracing the possible ways in which the thought of Ibn Rushd (Averroes, d. 595/1198) was transmitted within Muslim contexts can be such a “frustrating” and “depressing” task that it may have contributed to the near absence of his name in the lists of influential philosophers of Islam in the eastern part of the Islamic world. This article, through the consultation of original texts and manuscripts sets out to throw some light on this seeming absence. It offers a revision of Henry Corbin’s famous assertion about Ibn Rushd’s fate in the East by addressing the various receptions of Ibn Rushd’s texts in North Africa, Egypt, and the Levant, examining available manuscript catalogs of Ibn Rushd’s writings in Iran, and analyzing an important work by ʿAbd al-Razzāq al-Lāhījī (d. 1072/1661–1662), one of the most famous philosophers of the 17th century.

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Damnatio memoriae: On Deleting the East from Western History, 2020
By: Koert Debeuf
Title Damnatio memoriae: On Deleting the East from Western History
Type Article
Language English
Date 2020
Journal New England Journal of Public Policy
Volume 32
Issue 2
Pages 1-12
Categories Renaissance, Transmission, Tradition and Reception
Author(s) Koert Debeuf
Publisher(s)
Translator(s)
The story we read in books about the Renaissance tells us that Petrarch and Poggio rediscovered the books of antiquity that had been copied for centuries in medieval abbeys. The re-introduction of Greek science and philosophy, however, began in the twelfth century but occurred mainly in the thirteenth century. These works were first translated into Syriac and Arabic in the eighth and ninth centuries and stored in the House of Wisdom in Baghdad. There they were read, used, and commented on by Arab philosophers, of whom the most famous was Averroes (1126-1198), who lived in Cordoba. The translation of his commentaries on Aristotle changed the European philosophical scene profoundly. Averroes, who also had a philosophy of his own, had followers in Latin Europe until the sixteenth century. His work was well-known and he appeared in histories of philosophy until the middle of the nineteenth century, when the Arabs were pushed out of the history books. One reason was the invention of the concept of the Renaissance.

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Ibn Rushd in the Safavid Iran: “En Orient, après Averroès … ” Revisited, 2023
By: Fouad Ben Ahmed
Title Ibn Rushd in the Safavid Iran: “En Orient, après Averroès … ” Revisited
Type Article
Language English
Date 2023
Journal Intellectual history of the Islamicate world
Pages 1-29
Categories Transmission, Tradition and Reception
Author(s) Fouad Ben Ahmed
Publisher(s)
Translator(s)
Tracing the possible ways in which the thought of Ibn Rushd (Averroes, d. 595/1198) was transmitted within Muslim contexts can be such a “frustrating” and “depressing” task that it may have contributed to the near absence of his name in the lists of influential philosophers of Islam in the eastern part of the Islamic world. This article, through the consultation of original texts and manuscripts sets out to throw some light on this seeming absence. It offers a revision of Henry Corbin’s famous assertion about Ibn Rushd’s fate in the East by addressing the various receptions of Ibn Rushd’s texts in North Africa, Egypt, and the Levant, examining available manuscript catalogs of Ibn Rushd’s writings in Iran, and analyzing an important work by ʿAbd al-Razzāq al-Lāhījī (d. 1072/1661–1662), one of the most famous philosophers of the 17th century.

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Damnatio memoriae: On Deleting the East from Western History, 2020
By: Koert Debeuf
Title Damnatio memoriae: On Deleting the East from Western History
Type Article
Language English
Date 2020
Journal New England Journal of Public Policy
Volume 32
Issue 2
Pages 1-12
Categories Renaissance, Transmission, Tradition and Reception
Author(s) Koert Debeuf
Publisher(s)
Translator(s)
The story we read in books about the Renaissance tells us that Petrarch and Poggio rediscovered the books of antiquity that had been copied for centuries in medieval abbeys. The re-introduction of Greek science and philosophy, however, began in the twelfth century but occurred mainly in the thirteenth century. These works were first translated into Syriac and Arabic in the eighth and ninth centuries and stored in the House of Wisdom in Baghdad. There they were read, used, and commented on by Arab philosophers, of whom the most famous was Averroes (1126-1198), who lived in Cordoba. The translation of his commentaries on Aristotle changed the European philosophical scene profoundly. Averroes, who also had a philosophy of his own, had followers in Latin Europe until the sixteenth century. His work was well-known and he appeared in histories of philosophy until the middle of the nineteenth century, when the Arabs were pushed out of the history books. One reason was the invention of the concept of the Renaissance.

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