Averroës
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- Series: World Philosophers and Their Works
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- Curriculum: Medieval History/Middle Ages, Spanish/Portuguese History
Article abstract: Jurist, physician, and philosopher, Averroës was one of the last of a line of medieval Muslim scholars who sought to reconcile the truths of revealed religion and dialectical reasoning. He exercised an overwhelming influence upon Latin thought through his commentaries on Aristotle.
Early Life
Abu al-Walid Muhammad ibn Ahmad ibn Muhammad ibn Rushd, generally known as Ibn Rushd and to the medieval Christian West as Averroës, was born in 1126 into a distinguished Spanish-Arab family of jurists in Córdoba, the former capital of the...
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