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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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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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ʾAbū l-Walīd Muḥammad bin ʾAḥmad bin Rušd (Arabic: أبو الوليد محمد بن احمد بن رشد‎), better known just as Ibn Rushd (Arabic: ابن رشد‎), and in European literature as Averroes (/əˈvɛroʊ.iːz/; 1126 – December 10, 1198), was a Muslim polymath; a master of Aristotelian philosophy, Islamic philosophy, Islamic theology, Maliki law and jurisprudence, logic, psychology, politics, Arabic music theory, and the sciences of medicine, astronomy, geography, mathematics, physics and celestial mechanics. <a href="https://www.last.fm/music/Averroes">Read more on Last.fm</a>

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Quotes

“There is no city that is truly one other than this city that we [anahnti] are involved in bringing forth.”
“Knowledge is the conformity of the object and the intellect.”
“The necessary connexion of movement and time is real and time is something the soul (dhihn) constructs in movement.”
“Philosophers do not claim that God does not know particulars; they rather claim that He does not know them the way humans do. God knows particulars as their Creator whereas humans know them as a privileged creations of God might know them.”
“The Law teaches that the universe was invented and created by God, and that it did not come into being by chance or by itself.”
“On the whole, a man who denies the existence of the effects arranged according to the causes in the question of arts, or whose wisdom cannot understand it, then he has no knowledge of the art of its Maker.”

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Philosopher.image: File:Andrea di bonaiuto, apotesosi di san tommaso d'aquino, 11 averroè.jpg
Philosopher.caption: Detail of Averroes in a 14th-century painting by Andrea di Bonaiuto
Philosopher.name: Averroes
Philosopher.birth_place: Qurṭubah, Al-Andalus, Almoravid Empire
Philosopher.death_place: Marrakesh, Almohad Caliphate
Philosopher.era: Medieval, Islamic Golden Age
Philosopher.region: Islamic philosophy
Philosopher.school_tradition: Aristotelianism
Philosopher.main_interests: Islamic theology, philosophy, Islamic jurisprudence, medicine, astronomy, physics, linguistics
Philosopher.notable_ideas: Relation between Islam and philosophy, non-contradiction of reason and revelation, unity of the intellect
Philosopher.other_names: The Commentator (The Grandson)
Philosopher.notable_works: Colliget, On the Harmony of Religions and Philosophy, The Incoherence of the Incoherence

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Commons category: Averroes
date of birth: 1126-01-01
date of death: 1198-01-01
birth name: أبو الوليد محمد بن أحمد بن محمد بن رشد
Commons gallery: Averroes
name in native language: ابن رُشد
nickname: ابن رُشد الحفيد
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Kitāb al-ğawāmiʻ [Manuscrito]

Commentarius in Aristotelis de arte rhetorica libros tres hebraice versus a Todroso Todrosi Arelatensi.

Ḳitsure Ibn Rushd al shema Ḳiv’ i le-ArisḲoḲeles (lever)

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Biography
Early life and education
Career
Works
Commentaries on Aristotle
Stand-alone philosophical works
Islamic theology
Medicine
Jurisprudence and law
Philosophical ideas
Aristotelianism in the Islamic philosophical tradition
Relation between religion and philosophy
Nature of God
Existence
God's attributes
Pre-eternity of the world
Politics
Diversity of Islamic law
Natural philosophy
Astronomy
Physics
Psychology
Medicine
Legacy
In Jewish tradition
In Latin tradition
In Islamic tradition
Cultural references
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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.