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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Predicate Object
instanceOf Andalusian philosopher
Aristotelian commentator
Islamic philosopher
human
jurist
philosopher
physician
polymath
alsoKnownAs Aben Rushd
Averroes
surface form: Averroës

Averroes
surface form: Ibn Rushd
birthName Averroes self-linksurface differs
surface form: Abū al-Walīd Muḥammad ibn Aḥmad ibn Muḥammad ibn Rushd
burialPlace Cordoba (historical)
surface form: Córdoba
countryOfCitizenship Almohad dynasty
surface form: Almohad Caliphate
dateOfBirth 1126
dateOfDeath 1198
era Islamic Golden Age
Medieval philosophy
ethnicGroup Arabs
surface form: 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
St. Thomas Aquinas
surface form: Thomas Aquinas

Western scholasticism
influencedBy Al-Farabi
surface form: Al-Fārābī

Aristotle
Ibn Bajjah
surface form: Ibn Bājja

Avicenna
surface form: Ibn Sīnā
languageOfWork Arabic
legalSchool Maliki
movement Aristotelianism
Aristotelianism
surface form: Averroism

Peripatetic school
surface form: Peripatetic philosophy
notableIdea doctrine of double truth (ascribed in Latin tradition)
harmony of philosophy and revealed religion
unity of the intellect
notableWork al-Mughni by Ibn Qudamah
surface form: Bidāyat al-Mujtahid wa Nihāyat al-Muqtaṣid

Faṣl al-Maqāl
Kitāb al-Kashf ʿan Manāhij al-Adilla
Commentaries on Aristotle
surface form: Long Commentaries on Aristotle

Middle Commentaries on Aristotle
Middle Commentaries on Aristotle
surface form: Short Commentaries on Aristotle

Tahafut al-Falasifa
surface form: Tahāfut al-Tahāfut
occupation court physician
qadi
philosophicalSchool Aristotelianism
placeOfBirth Andalusia
surface form: Al-Andalus

Cordoba (historical)
surface form: Córdoba

Islamic Spain
placeOfDeath Almohad dynasty
surface form: Almohad Caliphate

Marrakesh
positionHeld chief qadi of Córdoba
physician to the Almohad caliphs
region Andalusia
surface form: Al-Andalus
religion Islam
workedOn commentaries on nearly all works of Aristotle then available in Arabic

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