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Tahafut-ul-falasifa. See Destrucción de filósofos

Index: La busca de Averroes.

Fishburn and Hughes: "The Incoherence of the Philosophers, an attack by the anti-rationalist Islamic philosopher Ghazali upon the Neoplatonism of Avicenna (Ibn Sina). Ghazali held that the world was deliberately created by God and not, as the Neoplatonists claimed, simply an emanation of a First Being. His use of the word Tahafut ('destruction') implies something like the tumbling down of a house of cards; the same concept was used by Averroes in his refutation of Ghazali. See Tahafut-ul-Tahafut." (190)