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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Example Sentences

In the 1100s, Islamic philosopher and scientist Ibn Rushd, or Averroes, wrote some of the most influential commentaries on Aristotle’s works on rhetoric, logical reasoning, science, literature and ethics.

From Washington Post

The Italian theologian Thomas Aquinas read and responded to Averroes with great respect, outlining the points on which their thought diverged.

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Not while we have the chance to invite our students to inhabit its crossroads and engage as interlocutors in its conversations with Plato, Averroes, Fibonacci, Wheatley and many more.

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By contrast, Cardinal Gasparo Contarini’s book on the elements, published posthumously in 1548, explained that Aristotle, Avicenna and Averroes had all denied that the equator was habitable: ‘This question, which for many years was disputed between the greatest philosophers, experience has solved in our times. For from this new navigation of the Spaniards and especially of the Portuguese it has been discovered that there is habitation under the equinoctial circle and between the tropics, and that innumerable people dwell in these regions...’

From Literature

In 1514 Giovanni Manardi expressed impatience with those who continued to doubt whether human beings could withstand the equatorial heat: ‘If anyone prefers the testimony of Aristotle and Averroes to that of men who have been there,’ he protested, ‘there is no way of arguing with them other than that by which Aristotle himself disputed with those who denied that fire was really hot, namely for such a one to navigate with astrolabe and abacus to seek out the matter for himself.’

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