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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. | ||
==Reception== | ==Reception== | ||
===Pre-nineteenth century=== | ===Pre-nineteenth century=== | ||
His work had little impact in the Islamic world, and there is no Islamic 'school of Averroism'. In 1185 he was banished in disgrace (for reasons now unknown) and many of his works were burnt. Of his thirty-eight commentaries, only twenty-eight survive in the original [[Arabic]]: the rest are in Latin and Hebrew translations made by philosophers from the [[ | His work had little impact in the Islamic world, and there is no Islamic 'school of Averroism'. In 1185 he was banished in disgrace (for reasons now unknown) and many of his works were burnt. Of his thirty-eight commentaries, only twenty-eight survive in the original [[Arabic]]: the rest are in Latin and Hebrew translations made by philosophers from the [[People of the Book|Christian and Jewish]] tradition. His impact was on these traditions, particularly in the Latin West in the thirteenth century, when he was known simply as 'The Commentator'. His work marked the climax of Aristotelian thought in the Islamic world and, to a large extent, its end. | ||
===Post-nineteenth century=== | ===Post-nineteenth century=== | ||
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