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THE NAMELESS TRUTH: AVERROES BETWEEN THREE FAITHS

By: Boris Kriger
Narrated by: Marc Sommerville
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He spent his life defending a single dangerous sentence: truth cannot contradict truth. For Averroes — judge, physician, and the boldest philosopher of the medieval Islamic world — reason and revelation were two roads leading to the same city, and to forbid one road was to insult the God who had built both. His own civilization disagreed. It put him on trial, burned his books in a public square, and exiled him to a small town where his name was meant to be forgotten.Then something strange happened. The books that could not survive in Córdoba were carried, in Latin and Hebrew, across a sea and across a religion. Christian Europe, which had lost Aristotle for seven centuries, received the Greek master back through the pen of a Muslim it refused to name, calling him only "the Commentator." Jewish philosophers from Maimonides onward built on his arguments. The reconciliation of faith and reason that one culture rejected became the intellectual engine of two others.The Nameless Truth follows that migration — a mind exiled at home and enthroned abroad, book burnings that failed, heresies their author never taught, and the long quarrel between the allegory and the letter that runs from a Córdoban courtroom straight into our own arguments about science, scripture, and who is permitted to interpret the world. Humane, witty, and entirely free of jargon and mathematics, it is the biography of an idea that refused to stay buried, and a field guide to the oldest fight we are still having.©2026 Boris Kriger (P)2026 Boris Kriger
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