Preface vii

Introduction ix

1. Life and works 1

2. Averroes and the Muslim Neoplatonists 5

3. The critique of Ash`arite theology (kala°m) 12

4. Logic and theory of knowledge 31

5. The physical structure of the universe 43

6. The soul and its faculties 56

7. God and the creation of the world 74

8. Ethics and politics 97

9. Averroes as jurist and physician 115

10. Averroes and the Latin West 129

11. Averroes and Aquinas 139

Conclusion 165

Select Bibliography 170

Index 175