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Averroës
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Averroës (1126–1198)

Arabian philosopher who argued for the eternity of matter and against the immortality of the individual soul. His philosophical writings, including commentaries on Aristotle and on Plato's Republic, became known to the West through Latin translations. He influenced Christian and Jewish writers into the Renaissance, and reconciled Islamic and Greek thought in asserting that philosophic truth comes through reason. St Thomas Aquinas opposed this position.



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Her dismissal of Muslim culture as having little of value beyond Averroes and Omar Khayyam was intemperate and indefensible.
Clinton, Fallaci, Ermey, and more by The Weekly Standard
See Averroes, Tahafut al-tahafut (Incoherence of the Incoherence), trans.
The question of cosmogenesis--the cosmos as a subject of scientific ... by Nasr, Seyyed Hossein / Islam & Science
Every schoolboy knows (as Macaulay was fond of writing) that the Moors invaded Spain in 711 and that Cordoba, a city of Muslims and Christians and Jews, grew into a great medieval center of world culture in the ninth and tenth centuries, the home of Maimonides and Averroes.
Treading lightly by Bordwell, Harold / Commonweal
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