Kitāb al-Kashf ʿan Manāhij al-Adilla

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Kitāb al-Kashf ʿan Manāhij al-Adilla is a theological and philosophical treatise by the Andalusian thinker Averroes in which he critically examines Islamic theological methods and defends a rationalist approach to understanding religious doctrine.

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Predicate Object
instanceOf Islamic theological work
philosophical treatise
theological treatise
addresses criteria for valid religious belief
interpretation of anthropomorphic scriptural expressions
relationship between philosophy and theology
aim critical examination of Islamic theological methods
defense of rationalist approach to religious doctrine
author Averroes
Averroes
surface form: Ibn Rushd
concerns limits of dialectical theology
standards for certainty in religious knowledge
criticizes dialectical methods of kalām theologians
doctrinalStance defends philosophical understanding of creed (ʿaqīda)
field Islamic philosophy of religion
systematic theology
genre Islamic philosophy
kalām critique
historicalContext Islamic Golden Age
influenceOn later Islamic philosophical theology
modern scholarship on Averroes
intendedAudience learned Muslim theologians and jurists
students of philosophy and kalām
mainLanguage Arabic
manuscriptTradition preserved in Arabic manuscript collections
methodologicalStance prefers demonstrative proofs over rhetorical and dialectical arguments
philosophicalInfluence Aristotelian philosophy
philosophicalOrientation rationalism
positionOnReason affirms compatibility of reason and revelation
positionOnScripture advocates interpretive reading of scriptural texts
regionOfComposition Al-Andalus
surface form: al-Andalus
relatedWorkByAuthor Faṣl al-Maqāl
Tahafut al-Tahafut
surface form: Tahāfut al-Tahāfut
religiousTradition Islam
subject divine attributes
epistemology of religious belief
eschatology
existence of God
methods of theological proof
prophethood
supports demonstrative reasoning (burhān)
theologicalSchoolDiscussed Ash'ari
surface form: Ashʿarism

Islamic kalam
surface form: Islamic kalām

Muʿtazilite theology
surface form: Muʿtazilism
titleTranslation The Book of the Unveiling of the Methods of Proof

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Averroes notableWork Kitāb al-Kashf ʿan Manāhij al-Adilla
Faṣl al-Maqāl relatedWorkByAuthor Kitāb al-Kashf ʿan Manāhij al-Adilla