Averroes and Hegel on Philosophy and Religion
ISBN: 9781315568515
Platform/Publisher: Taylor & Francis / Routledge
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Subjects: Area Studies; Humanities; Middle East Studies; Religion; Religion and Philosophy; Islam - Religion;

Comparing Averroes' and Hegel's positions on the relation between philosophy and religion, this book explores the theme of the authorities of faith and reason, and the origin of truth, in a medieval Islamic and a modern Christian context respectively. Through an in-depth analysis of Averroes' and Hegel's parallel views on the nature of philosophical and religious discourse, Belo presents new insights into their perspectives on the relation between philosophical knowledge and religious knowledge, and the differences between philosophy and religion. In addition, Belo explores particular works which have not yet been studied by modern scholarship.

Catarina Belo is associate professor of philosophy at the American University in Cairo. She is the author of several books including Chance and Determinism in Avicenna and Averroes (2007) which was selected as one of the winners of the World Prize for the Book of the Year of the Islamic Republic of Iran in the field of Iranian Studies (2009). She has contributed to a number of edited volumes including a chapter on 'Freedom and Determinism' which appears in the Routledge Companion to Islamic Philosophy (forthcoming).

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