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Ibn Rushd (Arabic: ابن رشد; full name in Arabic: أبو الوليد محمد ابن احمد ابن رشد, romanized: Abū l-Walīd Muḥammad Ibn ʾAḥmad Ibn Rušd; 14 April 1126 – 11 December 1198), often Latinized as Averroes (English: / ə ˈ v ɛr oʊ iː z /), was an Andalusian polymath and jurist who wrote about ...
May 17, 2024 · Averroes (Ibn Rushd), influential Islamic religious philosopher who integrated Islamic traditions with ancient Greek thought. He wrote commentaries on Plato and Aristotle and defended philosophical study of religion against theologians such as al-Ghazali, who had attacked Muslim philosophers Avicenna and al-Farabi.
Jun 23, 2021 · Often improperly referred to as Averroes—the corrupted form his name took in Latin—Ibn Rushd quickly achieved such prominence in later European thought as to rival the influence of Aristotle himself, whose works Ibn Rushd tirelessly championed.
Abu al-Walid Muhammad ibn Ahmad ibn Rushd, better known in the Latin West as Averroes, lived during a unique period in Western intellectual history, in which interest in philosophy and theology was waning in the Muslim world and just beginning to flourish in Latin Christendom.
Aug 17, 2018 · The Andalusian Ibn Rushd [Averroes] (d. 1198 CE) was a faithful disciple of Aristotle and he stuck to the organization of the Aristotelian corpus implemented by Andronicus of Rhodes (fl. 1st century BCE), a scholar of the Peripatetic school who gave the science of the soul a place of its own, as would Averroes.
Averroes may be the most prolific philosophical and scientific author of all time. His voluminous writings include 39 commentaries on Aristotle, Porphyry and Plato, numerous legal and theological writings, a still unknown number of short treatises on various philosophical, scientific, and medical topics, and a massive, encyclopedic work on the ...
May 11, 2019 · Ibn Rushd (Averroes) is regarded by many as the foremost Islamic philosopher. Abu’l-Walid Ibn Rushd, better known as Averroes (520/1126-595/1198), stands out as a towering figure in the history of Arab/Islamic thought, as well as that of West/European philosophy and theology.
Jan 1, 2020 · Averroes (1126–1198 CE) was the most famous and prolific commentator on Aristotle in all of medieval philosophy: 38 works are extant, at all levels of instruction. This concentration on Aristotle was not happenstance, instead, it reflects Averroes’...
Abū al-Walīd Muḥammad ibn Aḥmad ibn Rushd (1126-1198), known to the West as Averroes or as “the Commentator” for his 38 commentaries on Aristotle, was also a prominent jurist, qāḍī, theologian, and physician who lived in various cities in Andalusia (now Spain) and the Maghreb (now Morocco).
Averroes may be the most prolific philosophical and scientific author of all time. His voluminous writings include 39 commentaries on Aristotle, Porphyry and Plato, numerous legal and theological writings, a still unknown number of short treatises on various philosophical, scientific, and medical topics, and a massive, encyclopedic work on the ...
