The Birthday Boy
Abu al-Walid Muhammad ibn Ahmad Ibn Rushd was born April 14, 1126 (in the western calendar, at Cordoba in Al-Andalus, so he turns 888 today.
The great Andalusian philosopher/scientist/mathematician, the defender of philosophy ho wrote the great reaponse to al-Ghazali's attacks on it, may have had as much or even more influence on the intellectual tradition of Western Europe, which knew him as Averroes and received much of medieval Eurooe's knowledge of Aristotelianism through his work. He influenced Jewish philosophers including Maimonides) as well as Christian (Albertus Magnus, Thomas Aquinas, and the so-called Latin Averroists.
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