The Decisive Treatise
Written in 1179 under Almohad rule in al-Andalus, the text is a situated legal and philosophical intervention, not a modern manifesto for institutional separation.
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Averroes
Think with texts and their disagreements.
Córdoba · Seville · Marrakesh
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Bibliographic scope
This selection covers major works of law, medicine, philosophy and commentary. Epitomes, commentaries at several levels, lost treatises, letters and fragments are not yet fully indexed; titles and modes of transmission are specified where known.
The Incoherence of the Incoherence
Composed around 1180, the polemical dialogue answers The Incoherence of the Philosophers and follows its earlier objections.
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Written in 1179 in the context of the Decisive Treatise, it responds to debates among schools of Islamic theology.
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The long commentary is principally known through a medieval Latin translation; transmission must be distinguished from the lost Arabic wording.
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The Arabic original is not preserved; the text is transmitted notably through a Hebrew translation and later translations.
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Written and revised during Averroes’ judicial career, it reflects his work as a judge and the importance of legal method.
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Composed in the twelfth century and known in Latin as Colliget, the treatise belongs to the history of learned medicine; its explanations are not current medical advice.
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Books and versions have diverse histories of Arabic and Latin transmission; editions and translations make reconstruction choices visible.
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