This philosopher's works include the medical treatise Kalliyat, a work on religious law entitled Fasl, and Manahij, concerning logic and religion.
This philosopher's works include the medical treatise Kalliyat, a work on religious law entitled Fasl, and Manahij, concerning logic and religion. Chief qadi, or religious judge, in his native Cordoba, he succeeded Ibn Tufayl as physician to caliph Abu Yusuf, while a philosophical discussion with Prince Abu Ya'qub Yusuf led him to write his famous commentaries on Aristotle in which he tried to remove the Neoplatonic elements that had crept into Aristotelian thought. FTP, who is this Islamic philosopher who attacked al- Ghazali in his famous work The Incoherence of the Incoherence?
This philosopher's works include the medical treatise Kalliyat, a work on religious law entitled Fasl, and Manahij, concerning logic and religion.
Averroes (or Abu al-Walid or Ibn Rushd)