Biography

Abū al-Walīd Muḥammad ibn Aḥmad ibn Rushd (1126-1198), known to the West as Averroes or as “the Commentator” for his 38 commentaries on Aristotle, was also a prominent jurist, qāḍī, theologian, and physician who lived in various cities in Andalusia (now Spain) and the Maghreb (now Morocco). He was born in Córdoba, where both his… [Read More]

Introduction

Averroes may be the most prolific philosophical and scientific author of all time. His voluminous writings include 39 commentaries on Aristotle, Porphyry and Plato, numerous legal and theological writings, a still unknown number of short treatises on various philosophical, scientific, and medical topics, and a massive, encyclopedic work on the general principles of medicine. Relatively few of his works survive in their original Arabic, probably as a result of prohibitions against studying philosophy in Western Islamic lands after Averroes’ life. [Read More]

Featured Works

• Long Commentaries
• Middle Commentaries
• Short Commentaries
• Commentary on Plato’s Republic

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