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...

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 born in Córdoba, the capital of Muslim Spain...

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...

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...

1126-1198 Spanish Physician, Philosopher, Astronomer and Jurist Ibn Rushd, known to the West as Averroës, is famous for his commentaries on Aristotle (384-322 B.C.), which were widely used as standard texts until the sixteenth century. This body...

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...