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The Philosophy and Theology of Averroes, a classical book, has been considered essential throughout the human history, and so that this work is never forgotten we at Alpha Editions have made efforts in its preservation by republishing this book in a modern format for present and future generations. This whole book has been reformatted, retyped and designed. These books are not made of scanned copies of their original work and hence the text is clear and readable.

In this translation based on the original Arabic text, Averroes defends the compatibility of philosophical investigation and Islam.

Contains an English translation of an important medieval treatise on Aristotle's Metaphysics. This translation has been prepared on the basis of a wide range of documents including, apart from the available Arabic editions, various medieval manuscripts as well as a Latin translation prepared in the Renaissance.

Averroes (1126-1198) was the first and last great Aristotelian of the classical Islamic world; his commentaries influenced Christian thinkers and earned him a mention in Dante's "Divina Commedia". This text, his most important work, acts as a defence of the role of reason in a community of faith.

Averroes, an Aristotelian of the Islamic philosophical tradition, composed some 38 commentaries on the "First Teacher's" corpus. This work contains three seperate treatments of "De Anima" ("On the Soul").

An indispensable primary source in medieval political philosophy is presented here in a fully annotated translation of the celebrated discussion of the Republic by the twelfth-century Andalusian Muslim philosopher.