biography
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Averroës
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Latin form of Ibn Rushd
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pronunciation:
[averoheez]
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| lived:
| (1126–98)
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| biography:
| The most famous of the mediaeval Islamic philosophers, born in Córdoba, S Spain. He was a judge successively at Córdoba, Seville, and in Morocco, and wrote on jurisprudence and medicine. In 1182 he became court physician to Caliph Abu Yusuf, but in 1185 was banished in disgrace (for reasons now unknown) by the caliph's son and successor. Many of his works were burnt, but after a brief period of exile he was restored to grace and lived in retirement at Marrakesh until his death. The most important of his works were the Commentaries on Aristotle, many of them known only through their Latin (or Hebrew) translations, which greatly influenced later Jewish and Christian writers and offered a partial synthesis of Greek and Arabic philosophical traditions. |
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