Averroës

American  

[uh-ver-oh-eez] / əˈvɛr oʊˌiz /

Or Averrhoës

noun

1. 1126?–98, Arab philosopher in Spain.

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Averroës British  

/ əˈvɛrəʊˌiːz /

noun

1. Arabic name ibn-Rushd. 1126–88, Arab philosopher and physician in Spain, noted particularly for his attempts to reconcile Aristotelian philosophy with Islamic religion, which profoundly influenced Christian scholasticism

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Averroës

Thus Averroës may fairly be said to have had a share in every movement toward freedom, wise and unwise, for the last seven hundred years.

From Library of the World's Best Literature, Ancient and Modern — Volume 3 by Mabie, Hamilton Wright

The Jewish element prevailed in its most prosperous phase, and M. Renan in his history of Averroës shows how much of this prosperity and intellectual pre-eminence was due to the Jews.

From In the Heart of the Vosges And Other Sketches by a "Devious Traveller" by Betham-Edwards, Matilda

Averroës was the last great Muslim thinker, summing up and carrying to its conclusions the thought of four hundred years.

From Library of the World's Best Literature, Ancient and Modern — Volume 3 by Mabie, Hamilton Wright

Among the distinguished contributors to medicine at this time, though more a philosopher than a physician, is the famous Averroës, whose full Arabic name among his contemporaries was Abul-Welid Mohammed Ben Ahmed Ibn Roschd el-Maliki.

From Old-Time Makers of Medicine The Story of The Students And Teachers of the Sciences Related to Medicine During the Middle Ages by Walsh, James Joseph

Mark you, the word "nearly"—a bridge broad enough to span the straits of Gibraltar, the chasm between Bagdad or Granada and Dahomey, between Averroës and the Mad Mullah.

From The Color Line A Brief in Behalf of the Unborn by Smith, William Benjamin