Tahāfut al-Tahāfut written

تصنيف تهافت التهافت

c. 1179 CE · c. 575 AH† – c. 1179 CE · c. 575 AH† †

† Hijri date derived by computation from the Gregorian/Julian date; it may differ from the transmitted date by a day or two.

Cordoba

In 1179–80 Ibn Rushd composed his three connected treatises in defence of philosophy: Faṣl al-Maqāl, Kashf al-Manāhij, and Tahāfut al-Tahāfut answering al-Ghazali 1.

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The Crusades, Ayyubids and Mamluks
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al-Andalus & Europe · Maghreb
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117011801190 c.
The Buyid, Fatimid and Seljuk Era · The Crusades, Ayyubids and Mamluks

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Cordoba

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ابن رشد الحفيد
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Destiny· ابن رشد الحفيد· Cordoba· Great Mosque of Córdoba· Library of the Córdoba Palace· The battle of al-Arak (Alarcos)· Conquest of Cordoba· Alfonso's Siege of Cordoba and Its Submission to the Almohads

Sources

  1. Averroës — Encyclopaedia Britannica
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Youssef Chahine's film about Ibn Rushd in Almohad Cordoba on the eve of the burning of his books — a deliberate parallel with 1990s Egypt and religious militancy.