Allegorical interpretation of the role of philosophy in the discourse of Philo and Ibn Rushd
Instead of dismissing traditional mythology and poetry as heresies, Greek philosophy introduced a methodology of understanding known as allegory. Philo of Alexandria (20 BC–50 AD) was one of the first to employ allegory for understanding religious scriptures whose writings survived in the Christian...
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Routledge
2012
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| Online Access: | http://irep.iium.edu.my/27555/1/allegorical.pdf |