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The Incoherence of the Incoherence

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Al-Ghazali stated that one must be well versed in the ideas of the philosophers before setting out to refute their ideas. Al-Ghazali also stated that he did not have any problem with other branches of philosophy such as
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Ibn Rushd's response defends the doctrines of the "philosophers" and criticizes al-Ghazali's own arguments. It is written as a sort of dialogue: Ibn Rushd quotes passages by al-Ghazali and then responds to them.
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In Europe, ibn Rushd's philosophical writings were generally well received by Christian and Jewish scholars and gave rise to the philosophical school of
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was subsequently translated into many other languages. The book is considered Ibn Rushd's landmark; in it, he tries to create harmony between
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Ibn Rushd attempted to create harmony between faith and philosophy, between Aristotelian ideas and
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Index

Destructio Destructionis

Ibn Rushd
Córdoba
Spain
Arabic
Andalusian
Muslim
polymath
Ibn Rushd
Arabic
romanized
Islamic philosophical treatise
Aristotelian philosophy
Islamic thought
dialogue
al-Ghazali
The Incoherence of the Philosophers
Neoplatonic thought
faith
The Incoherence of the Philosophers
Sufi
imam
al-Ghazali
Ash'ari
school of Islamic theology
Avicennism
Ibn Sina
al-Farabi
Neoplatonism

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