
Averroes and al-Ghazali | The New Thinkery Ep. 1
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The Stakes in the Arabic Islamic World
The Decisive Treatise is considered a work of religious tolerance. He's trying to ease people up from this sort of sectarian infighting where these different factions are just accusing each other of heresy and arguing that each other needs to put to death. So you can see two different objectives going on in this. The question is, is whether one can even read Aristotle? What Aristotle one can read? Whether one needs to read anything outside of the sacred text at all.
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