8vo. xvi, 187 pp., publisher’s original wrappers, biblio. index, previous owner’s inscription on half title, otherwise copy in mint condition, Oneworld, Oxford, 2001.

Synopsis

The author is a well-known expert on Islamic philosophy. He presents a stimulating book covering all the key areas of Averroes’ life from his transmission of Aristotelian thought to Western Europe, to his conflict with the Ash’arite theologians, which ripped the Islamic intellectual world apart.