Renewal and Purpose-Based Reasoning in the Method of Averroes: A Survey and Study

About this book

Younes Ait examines the method of Abu al-Walid Ibn Rushd, known in the West as Averroes, with particular attention to renewal and reasoning grounded in higher purposes. The study surveys key works and reconstructs the principles through which this influential jurist and philosopher approached legal interpretation, scientific inquiry, and the relationship between revelation and reason. Rather than presenting Averroes as a figure divided between religious and philosophical traditions, the book shows how disciplined argument enabled him to move between them. It offers readers of Islamic thought, jurisprudence, and intellectual history a focused account of a method whose influence reached far beyond its original time and place.