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| Name: |
Averroës | | Variant Name: |
Ibn Rushd | | Birth Date: |
1126 | | Death Date: |
1198 | | Place of Birth: |
Cordova, Spain | | Place of Death: |
Marrakesh, Morocco | | Nationality: |
Spanish | | Gender: |
Male | | Occupations: |
philosopher, scholar |
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Biography of Averroës
900 words, approx. 3 pages
 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 work of that thinker in the 13th and 14th centuries....
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Biography of Averroes
5,400 words, approx. 18 pages
 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 Muslim Aristotelians. His writings and reputation...


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Averroes [addendum] Summary
1,277 words, approx. 4 pages 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 world via the Neoplatonic tradition. But some...
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Agent Intellect, The Summary
1,030 words, approx. 3 pages 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 is separate, impassible, unmixed, and in essence...
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Averroes (C. 1126–C. 1198) Summary
3,537 words, approx. 12 pages 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 immense philosophical acuity and power and to his...
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Averroes Information
3,336 words, approx. 11 pages
 Averroes or Ibn-Rushd (1126 – December 11, 1198), was an Andalusian-berber philosopher, physician, and polymath: a master of philosophy, theology, Maliki law and jurispudence, astronomy, geography, mathematics, medicine, physics, and science. He was...




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 The Review of Metaphysics
Ibn Rushd, Averroes. (book reviews)
03/01/1993: 444 words, approx. 2 pages This book purposes to study Ibn Rushd in his historic context. The introduction depicts the doctrinal and cultural background of the Muslim world of southern Spain in the time of Averroes to consider next the philosopher's life. It was Averroes' intention to construct...
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 Philosophy East and West
Alfarabi, Avicenna, and Averroes on Intellect. (book reviews)
07/01/1994: 996 words, approx. 3 pages Davidson begins his book with the following comment: "The most intensely studied sentences in the history of philosophy are probably those in Aristotle's De Anima that undertake to explain how the human intellect passes from [potentiality to actuality]." What indeed was Aristotle undertaking...
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 The New York Observer
One Critic\'d5s View Of the Pataki Era
10/22/2006: 1,016 words, approx. 3 pages The worst thing that happened to Eliot Spitzer’s gubernatorial campaign was getting caught in the Buffalo blizzard. Mother Nature can slow down the Democratic nominee, temporarily—a feat beyond the power of his Republican opponent John Faso, who, according to the latest Quinnipiac poll, trails him...
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 The New York Observer
One Critic's View Of the Pataki Era
10/22/2006: 1,017 words, approx. 3 pages The worst thing that happened to Eliot Spitzer’s gubernatorial campaign was getting caught in the Buffalo blizzard. Mother Nature can slow down the Democratic nominee, temporarily—a feat beyond the power of his Republican opponent John Faso, who, according to the latest Quinnipiac poll, trails him...


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