Truth, Philosophers, and Prophets

This book focuses on an unusual answer to the question of the relationship between philosophy and religion offered by Isaac Albalag. In Sefer Tiqqun ha-Deʿot, a Hebrew translation with commentaries, of al-Ġazālī's Arabic philosophical encyclopedia Maqasid al-Falasifah, Albalag indicates his adherence to what is known in scholarship as the double-truth doctrine. By analysing the Tiqqun against its philosophical background and its critical engagement with the Maqasid, this book demonstrates Albalag's unyielding commitment to Aristotelianism, as known to him through Averroes's lens, concluding that the double-truth doctrine functions as a rhetorical device within his philosophical enterprise, ultimately aiming to separate philosophy and religion.