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the sources give his title in the biographies
Shaykh al-Ra''is is Ibn Sina, not al-Ghazali
the Commentator is Ibn Rushd
the Conqueror is Mehmed II, not al-Ghazali
the sources name its title and refutation
the Canon is Ibn Sina''s, not al-Ghazali''s
the Decisive Treatise is Ibn Rushd''s
the Muqaddima is Ibn Khaldun''s
the sources name its renewal of religious sciences
the Healing is Ibn Sina''s
al-Bukhari is an earlier hadith book
al-Tabari is two centuries earlier
the sources record the vizier''s appointment
al-Ma''mun was two and a half centuries earlier
Saladin came decades later
Harun was three centuries earlier
the sources record his spiritual crisis and seclusion
he was a scholar, not a commander
he built thought, not a city
he secluded for learning, not trade
the sources give his Shafi''i school
he was Shafi''i, not Hanafi
he was in the Shafi''i school, not Maliki
the sources have him join fiqh and spirit
he joined fiqh and Sufism, not just philosophy
his school was religious, not medical
the sources have him join law and Sufism
the sources give his death''s place and year
that is Ibn Rushd''s death year
that is two centuries before his birth
he died in the sources
the sources give the Latin name
Avicenna is Ibn Sina
Averroes is Ibn Rushd
Alhazen is Ibn al-Haytham
his Revival stayed a reference in Islamic schooling
he debated philosophy, not invented it
he was a scholar, not a caliph
his name is in Islamic thought''s history
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