The fundamental work to know the thought of Averroes and his influence on Universal Philosophy.

"The life of Averroes occupies almost the entire 12th century, and is related to all the events of this period, decisive in the history of the Muslim civilization. The 12th century saw the attempt of the Abbasids of the East and the Ommiads fail definitively of Spain, to create rational and scientific development in Islam. When Averroes died in 1198, Arab philosophy lost its last representative with him, and the triumph of the Koran over free thought was assured for at least six hundred years."

"Now it will be understood why this Averroes, who for four centuries has had such a long series of disciples among Jews and Christians, and whose name has figured so many times in the great battle of the human spirit, has not made school among his compatriots, and how the most famous Arab for Latinos has been ignored by his co-religionists".

Averroes, an essential philosopher to understand the entry of Aristotelian empiricism into Europe, after shining in the incipient European universities of the 12th and 13th centuries, was forgotten, if not outlawed. His work, which is the culmination of thought in Al Andalus and one of the peaks of philosophy of all time, influenced Western thought more than Eastern Islamic thought. Thanks to the lucid work of Ernest Renan, published for the first time in Paris in 1852, his legacy and his figure were recovered for current thought.
Editorial Almuzara reissues this essential classic to understand the intellectual foundations of European thought.