Islam and Averroism
There was no formal school or movement of Rushidiyya ("Averroism") in the Islamic tradition. However, according to Anke von Kuelgegen's study of modern Arab Nationalist discourse, Averroes has been the central and symbolic figure in arguments over the decline and revitalization of Islamic society. This discourse is operating within or descending from the framework developed by the 19th-century French thinker Ernest Renan, whose depiction of Averroes, Averroism, Islam and Medieval Renaissance reintroduced the topic of the Islamic tradition's contributions to the Western world.
Nevertheless, there have been periodic calls to resurrect Averroism per se. The most notable of these calls was from the Moroccan philosopher Mohammed Abed al-Jabri.
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