Averroes

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Averroes was a 12th-century Andalusian Muslim philosopher, jurist, and physician renowned for his extensive commentaries on Aristotle and his major influence on both Islamic and Western medieval thought.

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Predicate Object
instanceOf Andalusian philosopher ⓘ
Aristotelian commentator ⓘ
Islamic philosopher ⓘ
human ⓘ
jurist ⓘ
philosopher ⓘ
physician ⓘ
polymath ⓘ
alsoKnownAs Aben Rushd ⓘ
Averroës ⓘ
linked to: Averroes

Ibn Rushd ⓘ
linked to: Averroes
birthName Abū al-Walīd Muḥammad ibn Aḥmad ibn Muḥammad ibn Rushd ⓘ
linked to: Averroes
burialPlace Córdoba ⓘ
countryOfCitizenship Almohad Caliphate ⓘ
linked to: Almohad dynasty
dateOfBirth 1126 ⓘ
dateOfDeath 1198 ⓘ
era Islamic Golden Age ⓘ
Medieval philosophy ⓘ
ethnicGroup Arab ⓘ
linked to: Arabs
familyBackground family of Maliki jurists ⓘ
fieldOfWork Islamic jurisprudence ⓘ
astronomy ⓘ
logic ⓘ
medicine ⓘ
philosophy ⓘ
theology ⓘ
impact central figure in transmission of Aristotelian philosophy to Latin Europe ⓘ
major influence on Islamic philosophy ⓘ
major influence on Western medieval thought ⓘ
influenced Jewish medieval philosophers ⓘ
Latin Averroists ⓘ
Siger of Brabant ⓘ
Thomas Aquinas ⓘ
linked to: St. Thomas Aquinas

Western scholasticism ⓘ
influencedBy Al-Fārābī ⓘ
linked to: Al-Farabi

Aristotle ⓘ
Ibn Bājja ⓘ
linked to: Ibn Bajjah

Ibn Sīnā ⓘ
linked to: Avicenna
languageOfWork Arabic ⓘ
legalSchool Maliki ⓘ
movement Aristotelianism ⓘ
Averroism ⓘ
linked to: Aristotelianism

Peripatetic philosophy ⓘ
linked to: Peripatetic school
notableIdea doctrine of double truth (ascribed in Latin tradition) ⓘ
harmony of philosophy and revealed religion ⓘ
unity of the intellect ⓘ
notableWork Bidāyat al-Mujtahid wa Nihāyat al-Muqtaṣid ⓘ
Faṣl al-Maqāl ⓘ
Kitāb al-Kashf ʿan Manāhij al-Adilla ⓘ
Long Commentaries on Aristotle ⓘ
Middle Commentaries on Aristotle ⓘ
Short Commentaries on Aristotle ⓘ
Tahāfut al-Tahāfut ⓘ
linked to: Tahafut al-Falasifa
occupation court physician ⓘ
qadi ⓘ
philosophicalSchool Aristotelianism ⓘ
placeOfBirth Al-Andalus ⓘ
linked to: Andalusia

Córdoba ⓘ
Islamic Spain ⓘ
placeOfDeath Almohad Caliphate ⓘ
linked to: Almohad dynasty

Marrakesh ⓘ
positionHeld chief qadi of Córdoba ⓘ
physician to the Almohad caliphs ⓘ
region Al-Andalus ⓘ
linked to: Andalusia
religion Islam ⓘ
workedOn commentaries on nearly all works of Aristotle then available in Arabic ⓘ

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Islamic Golden Age → notableScholar → Ibn Rushd (Averroes) ⓘ
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Aristotle → influenced → Averroes ⓘ
Islamic ethics → hasNotableScholar → Ibn Rushd ⓘ
linked to: Averroes
Islamic philosophy → majorFigure → Ibn Rushd ⓘ
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Almohad dynasty → notableFigure → Ibn Rushd (Averroes) ⓘ
linked to: Averroes
Arabic literature → hasNotableAuthor → Ibn Rushd ⓘ
linked to: Averroes
Islamic medicine → keyFigure → Ibn Rushd ⓘ
linked to: Averroes
Aristotelianism → majorFigure → Averroes ⓘ
Gersonides → influencedBy → Averroes ⓘ
Averroes → birthName → Abū al-Walīd Muḥammad ibn Aḥmad ibn Muḥammad ibn Rushd ⓘ
linked to: Averroes
Averroes → alsoKnownAs → Ibn Rushd ⓘ
linked to: Averroes
Averroes → alsoKnownAs → Averroës ⓘ
linked to: Averroes
On the Soul → hasCommentaryBy → Averroes ⓘ
On Generation and Corruption → commentedOnBy → Averroes ⓘ
Maghrebi Maliki tradition → hasNotableScholar → Ibn Rushd al-Jadd (Averroes the Elder) ⓘ
linked to: Averroes
Roger Bacon → influencedBy → Averroes ⓘ
Tahafut al-Falasifa → wasRefutedBy → Ibn Rushd (Averroes) ⓘ
linked to: Averroes
Islamic West → notableScholar → Ibn Rushd ⓘ
linked to: Averroes
Ibn Tufayl → influenced → Averroes ⓘ
Ibn Tufayl → notableStudent → Averroes ⓘ
Abu Yaqub Yusuf → patronOf → Averroes ⓘ
The Incoherence of the Philosophers → wasAnsweredBy → Ibn Rushd ⓘ
linked to: Averroes
The Incoherence of the Incoherence → author → Ibn Rushd ⓘ
linked to: Averroes
Ibn Zuhr → relative → Ibn Rushd ⓘ
linked to: Averroes
Ibn Zuhr → influenced → Ibn Rushd ⓘ
linked to: Averroes
Bidayat al-Mujtahid → author → Ibn Rushd ⓘ
linked to: Averroes
Bidayat al-Mujtahid → authorName → Abu al-Walid Muhammad ibn Ahmad ibn Rushd ⓘ
linked to: Averroes
Enumeration of the Sciences → influenced → Ibn Rushd ⓘ
linked to: Averroes
Ibn Bajjah → influenced → Ibn Rushd ⓘ
linked to: Averroes
Ralbag → influencedBy → Averroes ⓘ
Levi ben Gershom → influencedBy → Averroes ⓘ
Aben Rushd → hasName → Averroes ⓘ
Aben Rushd → hasName → Ibn Rushd ⓘ
linked to: Averroes
Aben Rushd → birthName → Abu al-Walid Muhammad ibn Ahmad ibn Rushd ⓘ
linked to: Averroes
Faṣl al-Maqāl → author → Averroes ⓘ
Faṣl al-Maqāl → author → Ibn Rushd ⓘ
linked to: Averroes
Kitāb al-Kashf ʿan Manāhij al-Adilla → author → Ibn Rushd ⓘ
linked to: Averroes
Middle Commentaries on Aristotle → author → Ibn Rushd ⓘ
linked to: Averroes