Averroes' Tahafut al-tahafut
Subtitle: (The incoherence of the incoherence)
By: translated from the Arabic, with introduction and notes by Simon Van den Bergh
Edition: Paperback ed.
Publisher: Gibb Memorial Trust
Published: 2008
Place of publication: London
Language: eng
Number of pages: 373
ISBN-13: 9780906094563
Subjects: Translations into English; Arabic literature; Islamic philosophy
Other titles: Incoherence of the incoherence.
Work titles: Tahafut al-tahafut
Description: Ibn Rushd, known to Christian Europe as Averroes, came from Cordoba in Spain and lived from 1126 to 1198. He is regarded as the last great Arab philosopher in the Classical tradition, and, under the patronage of the Almohad ruler Abu Ya'quib Yusuf, was a very prolific one. The Tahafut al-Tahafut, written not long after 1180, is his major work and the one in which his original philosophical doctrine is to be found. It takes the form of a refutation of Ghazali's Tahafut al-Falasifa (The Incoherence of the Philosophers), a work begun in 1095 which attacked philosophical speculation and declared some of the beliefs of the Philosophers to be contrary to Islam. Averroes sets his Aristotelian views in contrast with the Neo-Platonist ones attributed to the philosophers by Ghazali. Published in the UNESCO Collection of Great Works under the auspices of the Gibb Memorial Trust and the International Commission for the Translation of Great Works.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and indexes.