Averroes
Abū 'l-Walīd Muḥammad ibn Aḥmad ibn Rushd (أبو الوليد محمد بن احمد بن رشد), better known just as Ibn Rushd (ابن رشد), and in European literature as Averroes (1126 – December 10, 1198), was an Andalusian Muslim polymath; a master of Islamic philosophy, Islamic theology, Maliki law and jurisprudence, logic, psychology, politics, Arabic music theory, and the sciences of medicine, astronomy, geography, mathematics, physics and celestial mechanics. He was born in Córdoba, Al Andalus, modern-day Spain, and died in Marrakesh, modern-day Morocco. His school of philosophy is known as Averroism. He has been described by some[1] as the founding father of secular thought in Western Europe and "one of the spiritual fathers of Europe,"[2] although other scholars oppose such claims.[3][4]
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- ↑ Majid Fakhry (2001). Averroes: His Life, Works and Influence. Oneworld Publications. ISBN 1-85168-269-4.
- ↑ Alain de Libera, Averroès et l'averroïsme, PUF, 1991, p.121.
- ↑ Sylvain Gougenheim, Aristote au Mont Saint Michel, Seuil, 2008
- ↑ Dominique Urvoy, Histoire de La Pensée Arabe et Islamique, Seuil, 2006