http://bactra.org/notebooks Cosma's Notebooks en http://bactra.org/notebooks/2004/08/01#ibn-rushd <P><a href="al-andalus.html">Andalusian</a> philosopher, most interesting to me for his work on <a href="causality.html">causality</a>. (Yet Another Inadequate Placeholder.) <ul>Recommended: <li>Marshall G. S. Hodgson, <cite>The Venture of Islam,</cite> vol. 2 [Contains a very good discussion of ibn Rushd, the tradition to which he belonged, and his subsequent influence both in Latin Christendom and Islamdom; Hodgson actually asserts that the western way of formulating the problem of the relation between secular knowledge and religious belief derives largely from Averroes; I don't know enough there to judge.] <li>ibn Rushd, <cite>Tahafut al-Tahafut</cite> [Trans. by Simon Van Den Bergh as <cite>Tahafut al-Tahafut: The Incoherence of the Incoherence</cite>, which is of course the only way I've read it!] <li>Barry S. Kogan, <cite>Averroes and the Metaphysics of Causation</cite> </ul> <ul>To read: <li><cite>Decisive Treatise and Epistle Dedicatory: Determining the Connection Between the Law and Wisdom</cite> <li>Faith and Reason in Islam: Averroes' Exposition of Religious Arguments</cite> <li>On the Harmony of Religion and Philosophy</cite> (trans. George Hourani) <li>Herbert Alan Davidson, <cite>Alfarabi, Avicenna and Averroes on Intellect: Their Cosmologies, Theories of the Active Intellect, and Theories of Human Intellect</cite> <li>Majid Fakhry, <cite>Averroes: His Life, Works and Influence</cite> <li>Oliver Leaman, <cite>Averroes and His Philosophy</cite> <li>Mourad Wahba and Mona Abousenna (eds.), <cite>Averroes and the Enlightenment</cite> </ul>