Averroes (Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy entry)

Fouad Ben Ahmed and Robert Pasnau's Averroes entry in the Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy is a peer-reviewed reference article by specialists in Islamic and medieval philosophy, published in an encyclopedia that commissions entries from recognized experts under academic editorial review. Its authority rests on the authors' direct scholarly engagement with Averroes's own philosophical and legal corpus and its complex transmission into Latin scholastic thought. As a reference entry, it orients readers to the existing state of Averroes scholarship, including genuinely disputed questions about how far Averroes's own positions align with the more radical Latin Averroism later attributed to him, rather than resolving those disputes, and its bibliography is designed to lead readers to the specialist monographs that argue those points in full.