Averroes

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Averroes was a 12th-century Andalusian Muslim philosopher, jurist, and physician renowned for his extensive commentaries on Aristotle and his major influence on both Islamic and Western medieval thought.


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instanceOf Andalusian philosopher
Aristotelian commentator
Islamic philosopher
human
jurist
philosopher
physician
polymath
alsoKnownAs Aben Rushd
Averroës
Ibn Rushd
birthName Abū al-Walīd Muḥammad ibn Aḥmad ibn Muḥammad ibn Rushd
burialPlace Córdoba NERFINISHED
countryOfCitizenship Almohad Caliphate
dateOfBirth 1126
dateOfDeath 1198
era Islamic Golden Age
Medieval philosophy
ethnicGroup Arab
familyBackground family of Maliki jurists
fieldOfWork Islamic jurisprudence
astronomy
logic
medicine
philosophy
theology
impact central figure in transmission of Aristotelian philosophy to Latin Europe
major influence on Islamic philosophy
major influence on Western medieval thought
influenced Jewish medieval philosophers
Latin Averroists
Siger of Brabant
Thomas Aquinas
Western scholasticism
influencedBy Al-Fārābī
Aristotle
Ibn Bājja
Ibn Sīnā
languageOfWork Arabic
legalSchool Maliki
movement Aristotelianism
Averroism
Peripatetic philosophy
notableIdea doctrine of double truth (ascribed in Latin tradition)
harmony of philosophy and revealed religion
unity of the intellect
notableWork Bidāyat al-Mujtahid wa Nihāyat al-Muqtaṣid
Faṣl al-Maqāl
Kitāb al-Kashf ʿan Manāhij al-Adilla
Long Commentaries on Aristotle
Middle Commentaries on Aristotle
Short Commentaries on Aristotle
Tahāfut al-Tahāfut
occupation court physician
qadi
philosophicalSchool Aristotelianism
placeOfBirth Al-Andalus
Córdoba NERFINISHED
Islamic Spain
placeOfDeath Almohad Caliphate
Marrakesh NERFINISHED
positionHeld chief qadi of Córdoba
physician to the Almohad caliphs
region Al-Andalus
religion Islam
workedOn commentaries on nearly all works of Aristotle then available in Arabic

Referenced by (16)
Subject (surface form when different) Predicate
Averroes ("Ibn Rushd")
Averroes ("Averroës")
alsoKnownAs
On Interpretation
On the Soul
hasCommentaryBy
Gersonides
Summa contra Gentiles
influencedBy
Aristotelianism
Islamic philosophy ("Ibn Rushd")
majorFigure
Averroes ("Abū al-Walīd Muḥammad ibn Aḥmad ibn Muḥammad ibn Rushd")
birthName
Arabic literature ("Ibn Rushd")
hasNotableAuthor
Islamic ethics ("Ibn Rushd")
hasNotableScholar
Aristotle
influenced
Islamic medicine ("Ibn Rushd")
keyFigure
Almohad dynasty ("Ibn Rushd (Averroes)")
notableFigure
Islamic Golden Age ("Ibn Rushd (Averroes)")
notableScholar
Guide for the Perplexed
philosophicalInfluence

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