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Averroes wrote commentaries on most of the surviving works of Aristotle working from Arabic translations.

He wrote three types of commentaries.

The short commentary ( jami ) is generally an epitome ; the middle commentary ( talkhis ) is a paraphrase ; the long commentary ( tafsir ) includes the whole text with a detailed analysis of each line.

Unlike the European scholars who came after him, Averroes argued that rhetoric and poetics were both part of Aristotle's work on logical thought.