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Averroes as a bridge

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  22 July 2009

Mourad Wahba
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Abstract

Professor Mourad Wahba outlines how the philosophy of Averroes, who was an important influence on the Western Enlightenment, might now offer us a much needed ‘bridge’ with the Islamic world.

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Research Article
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Think , Volume 4 , Issue 12 , Spring 2006 , pp. 13 - 16
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Copyright © The Royal Institute of Philosophy 2006

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