Open AccessOn Averroes’ response to al-Ghazali’s critique of philosophy
Author(s) -
Т. Ибрагим,
Н. В. Ефремова
Publication year - 2020
Publication title -
minbar. islamic studies/minbar. islamskie issledovaniâ
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
eISSN - 2712-7990
pISSN - 2618-9569
DOI - 10.31162/2618-9569-2020-13-2-378-400
Subject(s) - creed , philosophy , eternity , criticism , islamic philosophy , epistemology , monism , islam , theology , literature , art
The article serves as an introduction to the translation of the book «The Incoherence of the Incoherence» (Tahafut at-Tahafut) by the peripatetic philosopher Ibn Rushd (Averroes, 1126–1198), written in response to the work of the theologian-asharite al-Ghazali (1058–1111) «The Incoherence of the Philosophers» (Tahafut al-Falasifa). The paper highlights the motives of al-Ghazali’s attack on Muslim peripatetism (Falsafa) and its infl uence on the fate of this school in the Muslim world. The research describes the basic understanding of the Falsafa picture of the world that comes as a framework for the discussions unfolding the fi rst of the three main points of al-Ghazali’s criticism, which is the thesis of the world eternity. The connection between Ibn Rushd’s book and his earlier theological and polemical treatises as «On the Correlation between Philosophy and Religion» and «On the Methods of Proof for the Principles of Creed» is shown.