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Truth, Philosophers, and Prophets: A Critical Study of Isaac Albalag's Sefer Tiqqun Ha-Deʿot

Contributor(s): Khalifa Abdalla, Bakinaz (Author)

ISBN: 9789004679467

Publisher: Brill

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Pub Date: December 6, 2024

Lexile Code: 0000

Target Age Group: NA to NA

Physical Info: 0.90" H x 9.40" L x 6.20" W ( 1.30 lbs) 292 pages

Series: Maimonides Library for Philosophy and Religion

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Description: This book focuses on Isaac Albalag's perspective on the relationship between religion and philosophy. In Sefer Tiqqun ha-Deʿot, a Hebrew translation with a commentary of al-Ġazālī's Arabic philosophical encyclopedia Maqāṣid al-Falāsifah, Albalag indicates his adherence to what is known in scholarship as the double-truth doctrine. By analysing the Tiqqun against its philosophical background and its critical engagement with the Maqāṣid, this book demonstrates Albalag's unyielding commitment to Aristotelianism, as known to him through Averroes's lens, concluding that his apparent embrace of the double-truth doctrine is merely a strategic tool to carve out a distinct space for philosophy, independent of religious beliefs.

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