Ibn Rushd
IBN RUSHD (AH 520–595/1126–1198 CE), better known in Western sources as Averroës, was the last outstanding Arab philosopher and commentator of Aristotle. Ibn Rushd was b...
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Abu'al-Walid Muhammad Ibn Ahmad Ibn Muhammad Ibn Rushd (Averroës)
1126-1198
Spanish Physician, Philosopher, Astronomer and Jurist
Ibn Rushd, known to the West as Averroës, is famous f...
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Agent Intellect, The
In his On the Soul, iii 4–5, Aristotle wrote that there is one intellect that becomes all things and another that makes all things, just as light makes colors visible. It i...
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Averroes [addendum]
At the time that Ibn Rushd was working, the philosophical curriculum was largely Neoplatonic, and this is because the Greek tradition of philosophy was transmitted to the Islamic w...
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Averroes(C. 1126–C. 1198)
Averroes, or ibn Rushd, was the foremost figure in Islamic philosophy's period of highest development (700–1200). His preeminence is due to his own immen...
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The Spanish-Arabic scholar Averroës (1126-1198), also known as Ibn Rushd, was a leading philosopher of the Middle Ages. His commentaries on Aristotle became a major source for understanding the w...
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Ibn Rushd, known to the Latin West as Averroës, was the most important of the philosophers who lived and wrote in Islamic Spain during the twelfth century and was virtually the last of the great ...
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Ibn Rushd
Abu'al-Walid Muhammad Ibn Ahmad Ibn Muhammad Ibn Rushd (Averroës)
Agent Intellect, The
Averroës
Averroes