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Averroes (Ibn Rushd) (1126 - December 10, 1198) was an Andalusi philosopher and physician, a master of philosophy and Islamic law, mathematics and medicine. He was born in Cordoba, Spain, and died in Marrakesh, Morocco. Wikipedia does not have an article with this exact name. ...
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His name is also seen as Averroës or Averrhoës, indicating that the o and the e form separate syllables. In Arabic (the language in which he wrote), it is Abu Al-Walid Muhammad Ibn Ahmad Ibn Muhammad Ibn Ahmad Ibn Ahmad Ibn Rushd أبو الوليد محمد بن احمد بن محمد بن احمد بن احمد بن رشد or just Ibn Rushd. In modern Tamazight (the language of the Almohad kings) it would be Muḥemmed mmis n Ḥmed mmis n Muḥemmed mmis n Ḥmed mmis n Rucd. Arabic is a Semitic language, closely related to Hebrew and Aramaic. ...
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Biography
Averroes came from a family of Maliki legal scholars; his grandfather Abu ِِAl-Walid Muhammad (d. 1126) was chief judge of Cordova under the Almoravids. His father, Abu Al-Qasim Ahmad, held the same position until the coming of the Almohad dynasty in 1146. It differs from the 3 other schools of law mainly on the sources it uses for derivation of rulings. ...
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It was Ibn Tufail ("Abubacer" to the West), the philosophic vizier of Yusef al-Mansur, who introduced Averroes to the court and to Avenzoar (Ibn Zuhr), the great Muslim physician; both men became friends. In 1160 Averroes was made cadi of Seville and he served in many court appointments in Seville and Cordova, and in Morocco during his career. Qadi قاضى is Arabic for judge. In arab countries the Sharia is not the basis for the legal system, the term Qadi means the same as its translation in English: judge. ...
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He wrote commentaries on Aristotle and a medical encyclopedia. Jacob Anatoli translated his works from Arabic to Hebrew in the 1200s. Aristotle (sculpture) Aristotle ( Greek: Αριστοτέλης Aristotelēs) ( 384 BC – March 7, 322 BC) was an ancient Greek philosopher. ...
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His most important philosophical work was the Tahafut at-Tahafut, "Refutation of (Ghazali's) Refutation", in which he defended Aristotelian philosophy against al-Ghazali's claims that it was self-contradictory and an afront to the teachings of Islam. Abu Hamid Muhammad ibn Muhammad al-Ghazali (born 1058 in Tus, Khorasan province of Persia, modern day Iran, died 1111, Tus) was a Persian Muslim theologian and philosopher, known as Algazel to the western medieval world. ...
With the wave of fanaticism that swept Andalusia at the end of the 12th century, his high connections could not preserve him from political trouble and he was banished to an isolated place near Cordoba and closely monitored until shortly before his death (in Morocco). Many of his works in logic and metaphysics have been permanently lost in the ensuing censorship. Logic (from ancient Greek λόγος (logos), meaning reason) is the study of arguments. ...
Metaphysics (Greek words meta = after/beyond and physics = nature) is a branch of philosophy, and related to the natural sciences, like physics, psychology and the biology of the brain; and also to mysticism, religion, and other spiritual subjects. ...
System of philosophy Averroes tried to reconcile Aristotle's system of thought with Islam. According to Averroes there is no conflict between religion and philosophy. He held that one can reach the truth through two different ways: philosophy or religion. He believed in the eternity of the universe and the existence of pre-extant forms.
See also Averroism. Averroism was a philosophical trend among scholastics in the late 1200s based on Averroës interpretations of Aristotle. ...
Significance Averroes is most famous for his translations and commentaries of Aristotle's works, which had been mostly forgotten in the West. Before 1150 only a few translated works of Aristotle existed in Latin Europe, and they were not studied much or given much credence by monastic scholars. It was through the Latin translations of Averroes's work beginning in the 12th century that the legacy of Aristotle was recovered in the West. Events Åhus, Sweden gains city privileges City of Airdrie, Scotland founded King Sverker I of Sweden is deposed and succeeded by Eric IX of Sweden. ...
Averroes's work on Aristotle spans almost three decades, and he wrote commentaries on almost all of Aristotle's work except for Aristotle's Politics, to which he did not have access. Hebrew translations of his work also had a lasting impact on Jewish philosophy. Averroes's ideas were assimilated by Siger of Brabant and Thomas Aquinas and others (especially in the University of Paris) within the Christian scholastic tradition which valued Aristotelian logic. Famous scholastics such as Thomas Aquinas believed him to be so important they did not refer to him by name, simply calling him "The Commentator" and calling Aristotle "The Philosopher." He left no school in the Islamic world, and his death marks the eclipse of liberal culture in Moorish Spain. Sigerus of Brabant or Siger of Brabant (1240 - 1284) was one of the major proponents and inventors of averroism, active at the University of Sorbonne in Paris. ...
Saint Thomas Aquinas (1225 - March 7, 1274) was a Catholic philosopher and theologian in the scholastic tradition, who gave birth to the Thomistic school of philosophy, which was long the primary philosophical approach of the Roman Catholic Church. ...
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In fiction Reflecting the respect which medieval European scholars paid to him, Averroes is named by Dante in the Divine Comedy with the other great pagan philosophers whose spirits dwell in "the place that favour owes to fame" in Limbo. This article is about the epic poem. ...
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Averroes appears in a short story by Jorge Luis Borges entitled "Averroes's Search", in which he is portrayed trying to find the meanings of the words tragedy and comedy. Jorge Luis Borges Jorge Luis Borges (August 24, 1899 – June 14, 1986) was an Argentine writer who is considered to be one of the foremost writers of the 20th century. ...
Originally included in the second anthology of Jorge Luis Borges short stories, El Aleph, published in 1949, Averroëss Search imagines the difficulty of the famed Arabic commentator and translator of Aristotle, Averroës, in explaining the concepts of tragedy and comedy. ...
Tragedy is one of the oldest forms of drama. ...
Comedy is the use of humour in the performing arts. ...
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