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1/28/2017 3:14 pm  #1


Averroes




Ibn Rushd, often Latinized as Averroes, was a medieval Andalusian polymath. He wrote on logic, Aristotelian and Islamic philosophy, theology, the Maliki school of Islamic jurisprudence, psychology, political and Andalusian classical music theory, geography, mathematics, and the mediæval sciences of medicine, astronomy, physics, and celestial mechanics.

Although highly regarded as a legal scholar of the Maliki school of Islamic law, Ibn Rushd's philosophical ideas were considered controversial in Ash'arite Muslim circles.

Ibn Rushd's strictly rationalist views collided with the more orthodox views of contemporary Islam, and  he was banished in 1195, and his writings were ordered to be burned.

Last edited by Goose (1/28/2017 3:32 pm)


We live in a time in which decent and otherwise sensible people are surrendering too easily to the hectoring of morons or extremists. 
 

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