# Ibn Rushd

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Raissa von Doetinchem de Rande, "The Politics of Islamic Ethics: Hierarchy and Human Nature in the Philosophical Tradition (Cambridge UP, 2025)

Fundamental to Islamic thought is the idea that there is a way that human beings simply are, by nature or creation. This concept is called fiṭra. In The Politics of Islamic Ethics: Hierarchy and Human Nature in the Philosophical Tradition (Cambridge UP, 2025), rooting her investigation in two ce…

Raissa von Doetinchem de Rande, "The Politics of Islamic Ethics: Hierarchy and Human Nature in the Philosophical Tradition (Cambridge UP, 2025)

Fundamental to Islamic thought is the idea that there is a way that human beings simply are, by nature or creation. This concept is called fiṭra. In The Politics of Islamic Ethics: Hierarchy and Human Nature in the Philosophical Tradition (Cambridge UP, 2025), rooting her investigation in two ce…

Raissa von Doetinchem de Rande, "The Politics of Islamic Ethics: Hierarchy and Human Nature in the Philosophical Tradition (Cambridge UP, 2025)

Fundamental to Islamic thought is the idea that there is a way that human beings simply are, by nature or creation. This concept is called fiṭra. In The Politics of Islamic Ethics: Hierarchy and Human Nature in the Philosophical Tradition (Cambridge UP, 2025), rooting her investigation in two ce…

600 Years Before Descartes: Ibn Sina’s Flying Man | Peter Adamson

Peter Adamson is Professor of Philosophy at LMU Munich and the host of the widely respected podcast History of Philosophy Without Any Gaps. He is one of the leading scholars working on the history of philosophy across the Islamic world, late antiquity, medieval philosophy, Greek philosophy, Arabic …

Averroes: The Decisive Treatise on The Harmony of Religion & Philosophy

⚖️ “Truth does not contradict truth.” — Averroes (Ibn Rushd) Welcome to Chillbooks — your sanctuary for timeless audiobooks. This is the full human-read audiobook of The Harmony of Religion and Philosophy (The Decisive Treatise / Fasl al-Maqal) by Averroes. This edition features clean narration, no…

Al-Andalus - Muslim Rule in Spain and Portugal (part 3): Thirty Kingdoms

This episode covers the collapse of the Umayyad Caliphate of Cordoba and the century and a half that followed, when al-Andalus, Muslim-ruled Spain and Portugal, fractured into roughly thirty rival kingdoms known as the taifas, and then watched two North African dynasties, the Almoravids and the Alm…

Al-Andalus - Muslim Iberia (part 3): Thirty Kingdoms

Al-Mu'tamid ibn Abbad was the poet-king of Seville, ruler of one of the richest courts in the Muslim world and one of the finest Arabic poets of his generation. This episode traces how he ended his life a captive in a small Moroccan town, and why the century that ruined him is one of the strangest …

France’s High-School Protest - Ep. 3 - A Philosophy Lesson from the Streets (continued)

In this episode of French Politics, we follow France’s high-school protest movement from the classroom to the street, the screen, and the halls of power. Through political artwork and the ideas of Rousseau, Étienne Balibar, Jacques Rancière, Pierre Bourdieu, Immanuel Kant, Fatima Mernissi, Mohamed …

Episode 29: Ibn Sina and Materialism

In this episode, our islamogauchist subset discusses Ernst Bloch's gripping work Avicenna and the Aristotelian Left. On Bloch's account, the history of materialism inherits a problem from Aristotle out of which two opposing lineages emerge: a clerical right-wing that weaponizes the afterlife agains…