Friday, July 01, 2005

Averroës

Medieval Latin  Averrhoës , also called  Ibn Rushd , Arabic in full  Abu al-Walid Muhammad ibn Ahmad ibn Muhammad ibn Rushd   influential Islamic religious philosopher who integrated Islamic traditions with ancient Greek thought. At the request of the Almohad caliph Abu Ya'qub Yusuf, he produced a series of summaries and commentaries on most of Aristotle's works (1169–95) and on Plato's Republic, which exerted considerable influence in

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