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Averroes
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There is no city that is truly one other than this city that we [anahnti] are involved in bringing forth.
— Averroes, Ralph Lerner (1974) Averroes On Plato's Republic. p. xxiv
Averroes
Arab Andalusian Muslim writer and philosopher (1126–1198)
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Updated 2026-06-08
He brought Aristotle back from the dead. A 12th-century Andalusian jurist and physician, Averroes wrote commentaries so sharp they reignited Western Europe's interest in Greek philosophy centuries after the fall of Rome—and got him condemned by the Church twice.
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Born in Córdoba in 1126, Ibn Rushd trained in law and medicine but spent his life trying to recover what he saw as the true Aristotle, stripped of Neoplatonist distortion. He argued that philosophy wasn't just permitted in Islam but required of certain minds, and that scripture should bend to reason when the two conflicted. His medical work described Parkinson's symptoms for the first time and proposed new theories of stroke; his legal treatise parsed the roots of disagreement between Islamic schools. But his commentaries on Aristotle—translated into Latin and Hebrew—became his collision with…
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Averroes
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[In the introduction to his Middle Commentary on Aristotle's Topics, Averroes said] This art has three parts.
— Averroës, Charles Edwin Butterworth (1977) Averroës' Three Short Commentaries on Aristotle's "Topics,". p. 92
Averroes
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Knowledge is the conformity of the object and the intellect.
— Attributed to Averroes, in: John Bartlett (1968) Familiar Quotations. p. 155
Averroes
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The necessary connexion of movement and time is real and time is something the soul (dhihn) constructs in movement.
— As cited in "Being and Language in Averroes' “Tahafut At-Tahafut” (2003) by Massimo Campanini
Averroes
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Philosophers do not claim that God does not know particulars; they rather claim that He does not know them the way humans do.
— Attributed to Averroes in Voices of Islam: Voices of change (2007) by Vincent J. Cornell, p. 35
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