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Tahafut al-Falasifa

تهافت الفلاسفة

Al-Ghazali's printed critique of the philosophers, listed among his works with the Ihya', Iqtisad, Maqasid and Munqidh 1; Ibn Rushd answered it a century later with Tahafut al-tahafut 2.

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The Buyid, Fatimid and Seljuk Era
Region
Persia & Central Asia
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A book by Abu Hamid al-Ghazali criticising the doctrines of the philosophers (philosophy). Al-Zirikli lists it among his books, together with "Ihya", "Al-Iqtisad fil-Itiqad", "Maqasid al-Falasifa" and "Al-Munqidh min al-Dalal". 1

About a century later Ibn Rushd answered it with the book The Incoherence of the Incoherence. 2

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Critic of
Philosophy
Answered by
Tahafut al-Tahafut

People and things also explored

ابن رشد الحفيد· Philosophy· Tahafut al-Tahafut

Sources

  1. al-Alam — al-Zirikli , p. 970
  2. al-Alam — al-Zirikli , p. 849
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ابن رشد الحفيد

Abu al-Walid Muhammad ibn Ahmad ibn Rushd of Cordoba — Averroes to the Latins; he devoted himself to Aristotle, translated him into Arabic and wrote some fifty works including Fasl al-maqal, Tahafut al-tahafut against al-Ghazali, Bidayat al-mujtahid and the Kulliyyat on medicine; the Almohad caliph al-Mansur honoured him, then exiled him to Marrakesh and had some of his books burned, then relented — he died there in 1198 and his body was carried to Cordoba.