This, too, is something vehemently denounced by those who claim to reconcile revealed law and philosophy, such as Judge Abū al-Walīd Ibn Rushd the Younger. In his book, which he entitled Methods of Proof in Refutation of the Theologians, he made the statements we have already quoted from him, up to his words: “For this reason, we too were compelled to compose a discourse on the agreement of wisdom with revealed law.”

He said: “Now that this has become clear, let us return to where we were. We say that what remains for us to discuss in this section, among the well-known questions, is the question of vision. For it may be thought that this question is, in some respect, included in this