In the Age of Averroes; Arabic Philosophy in the Sixth / Twelfth Century, edited by Peter Adamson (Warburg Institute, University of London and Turin, 2011) softback, 288pp., £60.00, ISBN 978 0 85481 154 0

This colloquium is in the series published by the Warburg Institute at London and Nino Aragno Editore at Turin.  An earlier volume explored the full range of philosophical in the 10^th century CE.  This collection of 13 papers by leading scholars examines the philosophical developments in literature of the 12^th century, several papers discuss Averroes (1126-98) the most famous thinker of the era.  But the volume has broader concerns and considers not only philosophers but also theologians, philosophical mystics, and scientists, Jewish philosophy and Islamic thought

The book is fully foot-noted and indexed, including an index of relevant manuscripts, but it would have been an advantage to have details of contributors listed.  The introduction discusses the discrediting of the traditional view that there was a demise of philosophy in the twelfth century in Islam as a consequence of al-Ghazat's Intolerance of the Philosophers, though Averroes commented at great length on Aristotle. 

This is a volume for specialist libraries.