Averroes’ influence on “the Problem of the Relation between Religion and Philosophy” in Middle Ages

This Article is an attempt for (1) explaining Averroes’ view on the relation between Religion and Philosophy, according to his Fasl-al- Maghal, and (2) describing how it influenced the philosophy of the Middle Ages. Averroes sees no real inconsistency between revelation and reason. He gives systematic way for removing the apparent inconsistencies between these. He interprets the verses of Quran to show that revelation and reason not contradict, but complete each other. At Middle Ages, on the other hand, a group of scholars saw in Averrroes the most faithful interpretation of Aristotle. The view of this group on reason-and-revelation was influenced by Averroes’ view. But the Christion Church opposed these adherents of Averroes on “the Problem of reason and revelation” and nicknamed their solution “double truth”.