This article focuses on the ideological interpretation that the Syrian-Lebanese thinker Faraḥ Anṭūn provides to Ibn Rušd’s philosophy (known as Averroes to the Latins) and the ambiguous role that the latter plays within the framework of the nahḍah, the awakening of the Orient pleaded by Anṭūn himself. In particular, through an analysis of the articles concerning the faylasūf, as well as of the monograph dedicated to him, it is shown that Anṭūn does not always regard Ibn Rušd’s thought in a positive light. On the one hand, the Cordovan is a martyr of the political interference of religion and an exemplary model for the centrality attributed to reason, for his tolerance towards religions and for his equalization between the nature of man and that of woman. On the other hand, he becomes the object of explicit and direct criticism in relation to his hermeneutic theory, guilty of completely subordinating religion to science, the instances of the heart to those of reason.
