Books by Averroes

An indispensable primary source in medieval political philosophy is presented here in a fully annotated translation of the celebrated discussion of the Republic by the twelfth-century Andalusian Muslim philosopher.

Contains an English translation of an important medieval treatise on Aristotle's Metaphysics. This translation has been prepared on the basis of a wide range of documents including, apart from the available Arabic editions, various medieval manuscripts as well as a Latin translation prepared in the Renaissance.

Averroes (1126-1198) was the first and last great Aristotelian of the classical Islamic world; his commentaries influenced Christian thinkers and earned him a mention in Dante's "Divina Commedia". This text, his most important work, acts as a defence of the role of reason in a community of faith.

Averroes, an Aristotelian of the Islamic philosophical tradition, composed some 38 commentaries on the "First Teacher's" corpus. This work contains three seperate treatments of "De Anima" ("On the Soul").