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'''ʾAbū l-Walīd Muḥammad bin ʾAḥmad bin Rušd''' (أبو الوليد محمد بن احمد بن رشد), commonly known as ''Ibn Rushd'' (ابن رشد) or by his Latinized name ''Averroës'' (April 14, 1126 – December 10, 1198), was (with Ibn Sina) the most famous of the medieval [[Islam|Islamic]] [[Philosophy|philosophers]]. He was born in Cordoba, Spain. He wrote commentaries on the Greek philosopher Aristotle, as well as works on [[Fiqh|jurisprudence]] and [[medicine]]. | '''ʾAbū l-Walīd Muḥammad bin ʾAḥmad bin Rušd''' (أبو الوليد محمد بن احمد بن رشد), commonly known as ''Ibn Rushd'' (ابن رشد) or by his Latinized name ''Averroës'' (April 14, 1126 – December 10, 1198), was (with Ibn Sina) the most famous of the medieval [[Islam|Islamic]] [[Philosophy|philosophers]]. He was born in Cordoba, Spain. He wrote commentaries on the Greek philosopher Aristotle, as well as works on [[Fiqh|jurisprudence]] and [[medicine]]. | ||
His main works survive in Hebrew and Latin, consisting of commentaries on Aristotelian texts and on Plato's Republic. Averroes held that theologians are cannot reach the highest demonstrative knowledge and are therefore unfit to interpret [[ | His main works survive in Hebrew and Latin, consisting of commentaries on Aristotelian texts and on Plato's Republic. Averroes held that theologians are cannot reach the highest demonstrative knowledge and are therefore unfit to interpret [[Shari'ah (Islamic Law)|divine law]] correctly. The main purpose of his Aristotelian commentaries was to recover the true ideas of the philosophers by separating them from the theological arguments of earlier Islamic philosophers such as al-Farabi and Ibn Sina. | ||
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