Major Works

Long Commentaries

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  • Posterior Analytics
  • Physics
  • De Caelo
  • De Anima 
  • Metaphysics
Word-for-word commentaries on the works of Aristotle which Averroes considered most important.

Middle Commentaries

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  • Isagoge
  • Categories
  • De Interpretatione
  • Prior Analytics
  • Posterior Analytics
  • Topics
  • Sophistic Elenchi
  • Rhetoric
  • Poetics
  • Physics
  • De Caelo
  • De Generatione et Corruptione
  • Meterologica
  • De Anima 
  • Metaphysics
  • Nichomachean Ethics
Detailed expositions of Aristotle’s works and Porphyry’s Isagoge.

Short Commentaries

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  • Isagoge
  • Categories
  • De Interpretatione
  • Prior Analytics
  • Posterior Analytics
  • Topics
  • Sophistic Elenchi
  • Rhetoric
  • Poetics
  • Physics
  • De Caelo
  • De Generatione et Corruptione
  • Meterologica
  • De Animalibus (parts of)
  • De Anima
  • Parva Naturalia (parts of)
  • Metaphysics

Commentary on Plato’s Republic

- Averroes, Commentary on Plato's Republic, trans. Ralph Lerner, Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1999.    
Averroes’ major statement on Platonic philosophy. From a review: “Because of the importance of Averroes (as a Muslim he is significant for both Platonic and Islamic thought), it is good to have Lerner’s new and thoughtful interpretation,… More