Averroes Summary

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... Read more

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... Read more

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 ... Read more