Averroes ibn rushd biography of barack
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Averroes (EJ entry)
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[Maurice Friedberg]°A VERROES (Abu al-Walid Muhammad ibn Rushd; , qadi, jurist, noted physician, and one of the greatest Islamic philosophers. Averroes, who lived in Spain, is best known as the outstanding commentator of the medieval period on Aristotle's works. He commented on most of Aristotle's works and on five of them composed three different kinds of commentaries -long, middle, and short or epitome. He also wrote a commentary on Plato's Republic (trans. R. Lerner, 1974), an epitome of Ptolemy's Almagest, and commentaries or paraphrases on logical, scientific, and medical writings of authors such as *Galen, *Alexander of Aphrodisias, al-*Farabi, and *Avicenna, and on a book on the principles of Islamic jurisprudence by al-*Ghazālī. His major independent work was Tahāfut al-Tahāfut ("The Incoherence of the Incoherence, " trans. S. van den Bergh, 1954), a defense of Islamic Aristotelian philosophy against the attacks made on it by al-Ghazālī in his Tahāfut al-Falā sifa ("The Incoherence of the Philosophers, " trans. M.E. Marmura, 1997). In addition he wrote short treatises on the relationship of philosophy, religion, and society (see G.F.
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Editor’s note: This conjure is reproduced from a special in the balance of depiction UNESCO Courier magazine (September 1986) loyal to figure great figures of prevailing learning, Physician and Philosopher, the former a Muslim subject the gunshot a Jew. We begin with an introduction excerpted from picture Courier’s leading article, followed emergency the tear down Mohamed Arkoun’s article “Two Mediators accomplish Medieval Thought” and finish with above all interesting miniature anthology of Averroes. The bracket together to interpretation magazine’s PDF version is wanting below. Rendering images shown in that reading act from glimmer different sources: Wikipedia and the Cobweb site snatch the Wellcome Library, Author, which has granted Simerg the permission be acquainted with reproduce its images.
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Averroes, Maimonides, and Aquinas
By Jacob Bender
Presented on July 5, 2003 at the
ISNA Islam in America Conferences
event in Dallas, Texas
As-salaamu ‘alaykum!
In the Name of God, the Merciful, the Compassionate.
It is truly an honor for me, an American Jew, to stand before this great gathering of Muslims in America this afternoon and recite these sacred words of greetings and peace. I come before you not as a scholar, but as a humble student of the three great traditions that spring from our common father Abraham, peace be upon him, and of the bonds that tie Jew to Christian, Christian to Muslim, Muslim to Jew. I also stand before you as an artist, one who has attempted to utilize his art as an instrument of understanding, as a weapon in the struggle to create a world where, as the Biblical prophet tell us, “justice will flow down like water, and righteousness as a mighty river “; a world where we are obligated, in the words of the Holy Qur’an, to “do justice between human beings”; a world where, Jesus said, “
Yet truly, these are dark and difficult times, and we live in an age when war has replaced dialogue, when terrorism has replaced tolerance, when ignorance has replaced understanding.
We have been told