Averroes
Also known as Averroës, Ibn Rushd, Averrhoes, Abū l-Walīd Muḥammad Ibn ʾAḥmad Ibn Rušd, Averrhoës
Ibn Rushd (14 April 112611 December 1198), Latinized as Averroes, was an Andalusian polymath and jurist who was proficient in a variety of intellectual fields, including philosophy, theology, medicine, astronomy, physics, psychology, mathematics, neurology, Islamic jurisprudence and law, and linguistics. The author of more than 100 books and treatises, his philosophical works include numerous commentaries on Aristotle, for which he was known in the Western world as "The Commentator" and "Father of Rationalism".
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Averroes (Ibn Rushd) was a 12th-century Spanish Muslim scholar who mastered an extraordinarily wide range of subjects—from philosophy and medicine to astronomy and Islamic law—and wrote over 100 works, most famously detailed commentaries on Aristotle's writings. His influence extended into the Western world, where he became known as "The Commentator" and helped establish him as a foundational figure in rational, philosophical thought.
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Person · Open Library
- Born
- 1126
- Died
- 1198
- Works
- 389
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- Maʾamar ha-hakhraʻah u-ḳeviʻat ha-ḳesher she-ben ha-dat ṿeha-filosofyah
- Le plaisir, le bonheur, et l'acquisition des vertus
- Du mariage et de sa dissolution
- Bidāyat al-mujtahid wa-nihāyat al-muqtaṣid
- Urbanus Aueroysta ... Commentorum omnium Aueroys
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5 objects attributed to Averroes, held across European museums, libraries & archives · via Europeana
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Commentarius in Aristotelis de arte rhetorica libros tres hebraice versus a Todroso Todrosi Arelatensi.
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- Jurisprudence and law
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- Aristotelianism in the Islamic philosophical tradition
- Relation between religion and philosophy
- Nature of God
- Existence
- God's attributes
- Pre-eternity of the world
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Ibn Rushd (14 April 112611 December 1198), Latinized as Averroes, was an Andalusian polymath and jurist who was proficient in a variety of intellectual fields, including philosophy, theology, medicine, astronomy, physics, psychology, mathematics, neurology, Islamic jurisprudence and law, and linguistics. The author of more than 100 books and treatises, his philosophical works include numerous commentaries on Aristotle, for which he was known in the Western world as "The Commentator" and "Father of Rationalism".
Averroes was a strong proponent of Aristotelianism; he attempted to restore what he considered the original teachings of Aristotle and opposed the Neoplatonist tendencies of earlier Muslim thinkers, such as al-Farabi and Avicenna. He also defended the pursuit of philosophy against criticism by Ash'ari theologians such as Al-Ghazali. Averroes argued that philosophy was permissible in Islam and even compulsory among certain elites. He also argued scriptural text should be interpreted allegorically if it appeared to contradict conclusions reached by reason and philosophy. In Islamic jurisprudence, he wrote the Bidāyat al-Mujtahid on the differences between Islamic schools of law and the principles that caused their differences. In medicine, he proposed a new theory of stroke, described the signs and symptoms of Parkinson's disease for the first time, and might have been the first to identify the retina as the part of the eye responsible for sensing light. His medical book Al-Kulliyat fi al-Tibb, translated into Latin and known as the Colliget, became a textbook in Europe for centuries.
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