The book and its title -- Averroes' life and works -- The meaning of Averroes' work -- Being and language in the Decisive Treatise -- A sociology of language -- Averroes, the double truth and his heritage -- The Decisive Treatise on the connection between Islamic religious law and philosophy.

Risālat al-ittiṣāl / li-Ibn al-Ṣāyigh -- Kitāb al-nafs / li-Isḥāq ibn Ḥunayn -- Risālat al-ittiṣāl / li-Ibn Rushd -- Risālat al-ʻaql / li-Yaʻqūb al-Kindī.

A decisive discourse on the delineation of the relation between religion and philosophy. Appendix: On the problem of eternal knowledge which Averroes has mentioned in his Decisive discourse.--An exposition of the methods of argument concerning the doctrines of the faith, and a determination of doubts and misleading innovation brought into the faith through interpretations.