The Incoherence of the Incoherence

These pages contain an analytical study of the book The Incoherence of the Incoherence, which Ibn Rushd wrote after reaching an advanced stage in his intellectual career, i.e., after extensive and in-depth commentaries and studies of numerous books, opinions, and philosophical and theological schools.
A preliminary anatomical overview of the book’s title, the sequence of its issues, and the content of its brief introduction reveals that it includes three aspects: First, a presentation of the texts in The Incoherence of the Incoherence; second, the levels of the statements of The Incoherence of the Philosophers in terms of validation and persuasion; and third, the judgments he issued on Al-Ghazali’s statements. Hence, the book’s title, The Incoherence of the Incoherence, expresses the conclusion it reached: the incoherence and refutation of Al-Ghazali’s claims regarding the incoherence of the philosophers’ theories in the twenty issues he addressed in his book.