A 12th-century philosopher wrote a book titled 'The Incoherence of the Incoherence'

When the theologian al-Ghazali wrote "The Incoherence of the Philosophers," attacking Aristotelian reason as a threat to faith, the Andalusian philosopher Averroes answered point by point with "The Incoherence of the Incoherence," defending logic and philosophy as compatible with religious truth. His commentaries on Aristotle later became so influential in medieval Europe that scholars there called him simply "The Commentator," shaping the scholasticism of Aquinas a century later.

— Averroes (Ibn Rushd), The Incoherence of the Incoherence — Tahafut al-Tahafut, circa 1180

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