Al-Ghazali, Averroës and the interpretation of the Qur'an
Subtitle: common sense and philosophy in Islam
By: Avital Wohlman ; translated by David Burrell.
Contributors: Burrell, David B.
Series: Culture and civilization in the Middle East -- 19; Culture and civilisation in the Middle East
Publisher: Routledge
Published: 2010
Place of publication: London; New York, NY
Language: eng
Number of pages: 130
ISBN-13: 9780415557207; 9780203865118
Subjects: Ghazzālī, -- 1058-1111; Averroës, -- 1126-1198; Koran -- Criticism, interpretation, etc. -- History; Islamic philosophy
Work titles: Contrepoint entre le sens commun et la philosophie en Islam.
Notes: First published in French in 2008 as "Contrepoint entre le sens commun et la philosophie en Islam Ghazali et Averroes" by Editions du Cerf, Paris.

Includes bibliographical references (p. [109]-126) and index.
Table of contents: title: Journeys of Ghazali and Averroës to their diverse conceptions of the role of reason; title: From the chimera of philosophy to the evidence of "the just balance"; title: The decisive criterion of the distinction between Islam and hypocrisy (zandaqa); title: Averroës, philospher-reader of the precious book; title: Reorganization of the world according to Aristotle in the light of Qurʼanic revelation by Averroës; title: Ghazali and Averroës in Muslim society.