The best essay I know on Averroës is Muhsin Mahdi's...

The best essay I know on Averroës is Muhsin Mahdi's "Averroës on Divine Law and Human Wisdom," in Joseph Cropsey, ed.,Ancients and Moderns (New York: Basic Books, 1964), pp. 114­31. I first studied Averroës with Professor Mahdi in Arabic 147 at Harvard University, and wish to acknowledge my great debt to his instruction on the subject. [^20]: For a recent…