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The fate of philosophy after Ibn Rushd in the Muslim West is the subject of
a constantly renewed debate among medievalists. While it was commonly accepted, since Ernest Renan, that philosophy «disappeared» after Ibn Rushd-research is now underway for a better understanding of the circumstances of the «decline of
philosophy». In fact, were there, after Ibn Rushd, philosophers who openly present
themselves as such, and who would have been recognized as such within Western Islamic society? In the present state of research, it seems that the question is still open. We believe that philosophy was practiced in a climate of restrictions, self-
censorship and censorship which gradually resulted in the ‘decline of philosophy’. This is evidenced by the restrictions granted by the philosophers themselves, in the
form of self-censorship, accommodation, the multiplication of forms of expression of philosophical ideas, the multiplication of forms of expression of philosophical ideas and withdrawal from public life, or restrictions imposed by the antagonists in
the name of ‘religion’, accusation of heresy and of hypocrisy.
The purpose of this article is to shed some light on the restrictive climate for the practice of philosophy after the condemnation of Ibn Rushd.