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Averroes
Arab Andalusian Muslim writer and philosopher (1126–1198)
Details
- Instance of
- human
- Born
- 14 April 1126, 1126
- Died
- 10 December 1198, 1198
- Place of birth
- Córdoba
- Place of death
- Marrakech
- Sex or gender
- male
- Given name
- Muhammad
- Present in work
- The Divine Comedy
- Movement
- aristotelianism, Averroism
- Field of work
- Islamic philosophy, astronomy, aqidah, fiqh, medicine, linguistics, mathematics, Ilm al-Kalam, geography
- Occupation
- philosopher, physician, astronomer, judge, teacher, writer
- Native language
- Arabic
- Religion
- Islam
- attested in
- Mare Magnum (vol. 82)
- birth name
- أبو الوليد محمد بن أحمد بن محمد بن رشد
- described by source
- Infernal Dictionary, 6th ed., Great Soviet Encyclopedia (1926–1947), Dictionary of African Biography, BEIC Digital Library, The Nuttall Encyclopædia, Brockhaus and Efron Encyclopedic Dictionary, Jewish Encyclopedia of Brockhaus and Efron, Small Brockhaus and Efron Encyclopedic Dictionary, Library of the World's Best Literature, Meyers Konversations-Lexikon, 4th edition (1885–1890), Encyclopædia Britannica 11th edition, Encyclopædia Britannica Ninth Edition
- different from
- Abu-'l-Walīd Muḥammad Ibn-Aḥmad Ibn-Rušd
- influenced by
- Aristotle, Muhammad, Plato, Plotinus, Malik ibn Anas, Al-Ghazali, Avempace, Ibn Zuhr, Ibn Tufayl, Farabi, Avicenna
- languages spoken, written or signed
- Arabic
- name in native language
- ابن رُشد
- nickname
- أبو الوليد, المُعلِّم الثاني, ابن رُشد الحفيد
- notable work
- The Incoherence of the Incoherence, On the Harmony of Religions and Philosophy, Bidayat al-Mujtahid, Colliget
- student of
- Abu Jafar ibn Harun al-Turjali, Ibn Bashkuwāl, Ibn Tufayl
- topic's main category
- Category:Averroes
Connected on Wikidata
Author of
- The Incoherence of the Incoherence
- On the Harmony of Religions and Philosophy
- Colliget
- Bidayat al-Mujtahid
- unity of the intellect
- The Philosophy and Theology of Averroes
- Middle Commentary on the Rhetoric
- Middle Commentary on the Sophistici Elenchi
- Bidāyat al-mujtahid wa-nihāyat al-muqtaṣid (Dār al-ḥadīth, 2004)
- Commentarium magnum in De coelo Aristotelis
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