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  1. Persecution and the art of writing.Leo Strauss - 1952 - Chicago: University of Chicago Press.
    The essays collected in Persecution and the Art of Writing all deal with one problem--the relation between philosophy and politics. Here, Strauss sets forth the thesis that many philosophers, especially political philosophers, have reacted to the threat of persecution by disguising their most controversial and heterodox ideas.
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  • The Source that Nourishes, Averroes's Decisive Determination: CHARLES E. BUTTERWORTH.Charles E. Butterworth - 1995 - Arabic Sciences and Philosophy 5 (1):93-119.
    What follows is a detailed study of Averroes's Decisive Treatise based on a new English translation of the text. It seeks to reveal the steps of the exposition, the quality of the reasoning used therein, and the general goal. The study adheres closely to the framework established by Averroes at the outset: namely, that this is an inquiry conducted from the perspective of what is permitted by the divine law of Islam. And it takes seriously the proposition that one can (...)
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  • The Unknowability of God in Al-Ghazali.David B. Burrell - 1987 - Religious Studies 23 (2):171 - 182.
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