Tahafut al-Tahafut

تهافت التهافت

Ibn Rushd's printed refutation of al-Ghazali's Tahafut, one of the fifty or so works he composed 1.

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Era
The Crusades, Ayyubids and Mamluks
Region
al-Andalus & Europe
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A book by Ibn Rushd answering al-Ghazali, that is, answering The Incoherence of the Philosophers. Al-Zirikli counts it among some fifty books that Ibn Rushd wrote. 1

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Authored by
ابن رشد الحفيد
Responded to
Tahafut al-Falasifa

People and things also explored

Philosophy· Ibn Rushd becomes the caliph's physician (1182)· Ibn Rushd exiled to Lucena, 591 AH· Ibn Ṭufayl presents Ibn Rushd to the caliph· Tahāfut al-Tahāfut written· Abu Hamid al-Ghazali· Ibn Sina (Avicenna)· Cordoba

Sources

  1. al-Alam — al-Zirikli , p. 849
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Philosophy in Islamic civilisation; Ibn Bajja was counted among the philosophers of Islam, and Ibn Rushd devoted himself to Aristotle, translating him into Arabic and writing some fifty works.