Averroes
Averroes was the greatest philosophers
of the Arabs, and the last one, Arab philosophy ending with him while reaching its
climax. His posthumous fame was based less on his original Arabic writings than on Latin
and Hebrew translations of them. Arabic science and Islamic progress were killed by
religious intolerance and obscurantism. There is no better example of a great culture being
stopped dead by theological conceit and stupidity.
Averroes was the great Moslem philosopher and lived from 1126-1198. His commentaries on
Aristotle were translated from Arabic into Latin and available to the Christian West
before the original Greek. Ibn Rushd was not badly treated, but he was disgraced and after
his death his writings were rejected by his own people.
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