Interpreting Averroes: Critical Essays

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This volume brings together world-leading scholars on the thought of Averroes, the greatest medieval commentator on Aristotle but also a major scholar of Islam. The collection situates him in his historical context by emphasizing the way that he responded to the political situation of twelfth-century Islamic Spain and the provocations of Islamic theology. It also sheds light on the interconnections between aspects of his work that are usually studied separately, such as his treatises on logic and his legal writings. Advanced students and scholars will find authoritative and insightful treatments of Averroes' philosophy, tackled from multiple perspectives and written in a clear and accessible way that will appeal to those encountering his work for the first time as well as to anyone looking for new critical approaches to Averroes and his thinking.

Peter Adamson is Professor of Late Ancient and Arabic Philosophy at the Ludwig Maximilian University of Munich. He has published numerous volumes including The Cambridge Companion to Arabic Philosophy (Cambridge, 2004) and Interpreting Avicenna: Critical Essays (Cambridge, 2013). Matteo Di Giovanni is Assistant Professor of Philosophy at Providence College, Rhode Island. Among his publications are various studies on Andalusian philosophy and the Syro-Arabic tradition of Greek Aristotelianism, and a monograph on Averroes entitled Averroe (2017).