Averroes and Hegel on Philosophy and Religion

Comparing Averroes’ and Hegel’s positions on the relation between philosophy and religion, this book explores the relation between faith and reason in a medieval Islamic and a modern Christian context. Through an in-depth analysis of Averroes’ and Hegel’s views on philosophical and religious language and method, Belo presents new insights into their perspectives on the relation between philosophical knowledge and religious knowledge. In addition to discussing the parallels and differences of their positions, Belo explores particular works which have not yet been analysed 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).