Averroes
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Averroes (
1126 -
1198) was a Spanish-Arab philosopher and physician. (His name is also seen as
Averro? or
Averrho?. In
Arabic, it is
Abu Al-Walid Muhammad Ibn Ahmad Ibn Rushd or just
Ibn Rushd.) He was born in
Cordoba, Spain.
He wrote commentaries on Aristotle and a medical encyclopedia. Jacob Anatoli translated his works from Arabic to Hebrew in the 1200s. His writings influenced Christian thought in the Middle Ages.
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