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Averroes

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Noun1.AverroesAverroes - Arabian philosopher born in Spain; wrote detailed commentaries on Aristotle that were admired by the Schoolmen (1126-1198)


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Her dismissal of Muslim culture as having little of value beyond Averroes and Omar Khayyam was intemperate and indefensible.
See Averroes, Tahafut al-tahafut (Incoherence of the Incoherence), trans.
Every schoolboy knows (as Macaulay was fond of writing) that the Moors invaded Spain in 711 and that Cordoba, a city of Muslims and Christians and Jews, grew into a great medieval center of world culture in the ninth and tenth centuries, the home of Maimonides and Averroes.
 
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