The Philosophy and Theology of Averroes

Mohammed Jamil ur Rehman became the first scholar to translate in English the Two (commonly counted as three) tracts by Averroes, namely, (1) Fasl al-maqal wataqrir ma bayn al-aharia wa-l-hikma min al-ittisal, together with a short appendix concerning the eternal knowledge of God, and (2) al-Kashf an manahij al-adilla fi aqaid al-milla. These were first edited in 1859 by M.J. Muller, who also published a German translation.In these tracts Averroes deals openly and in some length with a subject which Mohammedan writers have almost untouched the relation of philosophy to religion and in view of the importance and general interest of what he has to say a good English translation is indeed very welcome.