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Averroes

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Abū 'l-Walīd Muḥammad ibn Aḥmad ibn Rushd (أبو الوليد محمد بن احمد بن رشد), mair weel-kent juist as Ibn Rushd (ابن رشد), an in European leeteratur as Averroes (1126 – 10 December 1198), wis an Andalusian Muslim polymath; a maister o Islamic philosophy, Islamic theology, Maliki law an jurisprudence, logic, psychology, politics, Arabic muisic theory, an the sciences o medicine, astronomy, geography, mathematics, pheesics an celestial mechanics. He wis born in Córdoba, Al Andalus, modren-day Spain, an dee'd in Marrakesh, modren-day Morocco. His schuil o philosophy is kent as Averroism. He haes been describit bi some[1] as the foondin faither o secular thocht in Wastren Europe an "ane o the spiritual faithers o Europe,"[2] awtho ither scholars oppose sic claims.[3][4]

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  1. ↑ Majid Fakhry (2001). Averroes: His Life, Works and Influence. Oneworld Publications. ISBN 1-85168-269-4.
  2. ↑ Alain de Libera, Averroès et l'averroïsme, PUF, 1991, p.121.
  3. ↑ Sylvain Gougenheim, Aristote au Mont Saint Michel, Seuil, 2008
  4. ↑ Dominique Urvoy, Histoire de La Pensée Arabe et Islamique, Seuil, 2006