There are two different Arabic interpretations of Aristotle ’ s Poetics in commentaries by Abu Nasr al-Farabi and Averroes ( i. e., Abu al-Walid Ibn Rushd ).

Occasionally the philosophers of the Middle Ages even preferred Averroes ’ commentary to Aristotle's stated sense.

Further, he was given this title not because he agreed with Averroes, but merely because of his skill in explaining some of Averroes ’ philosophical ideas.

Averroes was certainly a relevant influence on Baconthorpe, and he would sometimes reference Averroes ’ commentaries in making his own arguments ; however, he commonly referenced other theologians, including many of his contemporaries, thus it should not be assumed that Averroes was the primary influence on Baconthorpe ’ s thinking.

* Averroes, Averroes ’ Questions in Physics, trans.

His principal translation embraced the first five books of Averroes ' " intermediate " commentary on Aristotle's Logic, consisting of the Introduction of Porphyry and the four books of Aristotle on the Categories, Interpretation, Syllogism, and Demonstration.

Averroes ( Ibn Rushd ), in his treatise on Justice and Jihad and his commentary on Plato's Republic, writes that the human mind can know of the unlawfulness of killing and stealing and thus of the five maqasid or higher intents of the Islamic sharia or to protect religion, life, property, offspring, and reason.

Text 71 of Averroes ' commentary on Aristotle's Physics contains a discussion on Avempace's theory of motion, as well as the following quotation from the seventh book of Ibn Bajjah's lost work on physics:

Moorish philosopher Averroes ( 1126-1198 ), in commentary on Ghazali, takes the opposite view.

Most notably, in his Sentences commentary, he discusses the perspective of Averroes in great depth, along with that of Aristotle.

In 1495 he produced an edition of the works of Averroes ; with a commentary compatible with his acquired orthodoxy.

* Averroes ' commentary on the Metaphysics, in Latin, together with the ' old ' ( Arabic ) and new translation based on Moerbeke.

The terms " comedy " and " satire " became synonymous after Aristotle's Poetics was translated into Arabic in the medieval Islamic world, where it was elaborated upon by Arabic writers and Islamic philosophers such as Abu Bischr, his pupil Al-Farabi, Avicenna, and Averroes.

Averroes ' interpretation of the Poetics was accepted by the West because of its relevance to their humanistic viewpoints.

The terms " comedy " and " satire " became synonymous after Aristotle's Poetics was translated into Arabic in the medieval Islamic world, where it was elaborated upon by Arabic writers and Islamic philosophers, such as Abu Bischr, his pupil al-Farabi, Avicenna, and Averroes.

A complete version of Aristotle's Poetics appeared later ( first in 1570 in an Italian version ), but his ideas had circulated ( in an extremely truncated form ) as early as the 13th century in Hermann the German's Latin translation of Averroes ' Arabic gloss, and other translations of the Poetics had appeared in the first half of the 16th century ; also of importance were the commentaries on Aristotle's poetics by Julius Caesar Scaliger which appeared in the 1560s.

In it Anatoli manifests a wide acquaintance not only with the classic Jewish exegetes, but also with Plato, Aristotle, Averroes, and the Vulgate, as well as with a large number of Christian institutions, some of which he ventures to criticize, such as celibacy and monastic castigation, as well as certain heretics ( compare 15a, 98a, 115a ); and he repeatedly appeals to his readers for a broader cultivation of the classic languages and the profane branches of learning.

Prior to translating Averroes ' commentaries, Anatoli had occupied himself with the translation of astronomical treatises by the same writer and others ; but at the instance of friends he turned his attention to logic and the speculative works, realizing and recommending theimportance of logic, in particular, in view of the contemporary religious controversies.

Perhaps the most influential political philosopher of medieval Europe was St. Thomas Aquinas who helped reintroduce Aristotle's works, which had only been preserved by the Muslims, along with the commentaries of Averroes.

A contemporary of Averroes, Abdelwahid al-Marrakushi writing in 1224, reported that there were secret and public reasons for his falling out of favor with Yaqub al-Mansour:

Averroes's strictly rationalist views collided with the more orthodox views of Abu Yusuf Ya ' qub al-Mansur, who therefore eventually banished Averroes, though he had previously appointed him as his personal physician.

Averroes tried to reconcile Aristotle's system of thought with Islam.

* Reflecting the respect which medieval European scholars paid to him, Averroes is named by Dante in The Divine Comedy with the great pagan philosophers whose spirits dwell in " the place that favor owes to fame " in Limbo.

Anatoli wrote the Malmad exhibiting his broad knowledge of classic Jewish exegetes, as well as Plato, Aristotle, Averroes, and the Vulgate, as well as with a large number of Christian institutions, some of which he ventures to criticize, such as celibacy and monastic castigation, as well as certain heretics and he repeatedly appeals to his readers for a broader cultivation of the classic languages and the non-Jewish branches of learning.

This period starts with al-Kindi in the 9th century and ends with Averroes ( Ibn Rushd ) at the end of 12th century.

The works of Hellenistic-influenced Islamic philosophers were crucial in the reception of Aristotelian logic in medieval Europe, along with the commentaries on the Organon by Averroes.

It was commonly believed that the Asharites put an end to philosophy as such in the Muslim world, with the death of Averroes at the end of the 12th century.

Averroes at the time of Dante Alighieri was probably the most widely condemned thinker in the medieval Christian world ... Averroism became virtually synonymous with atheism in the late Middle Ages and early Renaissance.

Such claims were without merit, however, as the Alexandrian Aristotelianism of Averroes followed " the strict study of the text of Aristotle, which was introduced by Avicenna, a large amount of traditional Neoplatonism was incorporated with the body of traditional Aristotelianism ".

The Mu ' tazilah school of Islamic theology also defended the view ( with, for example, Nazzam maintaining that God is powerless to engage in injustice or lying ), as did the Islamic philosopher Averroes.

This opened up to him the Arabic versions of Aristotle and the multitudinous commentaries of the Arabs upon them, and also brought him into contact with the original works of Avicenna and Averroes.

There exist translations by Scot himself of the Historia animalium, of De anima and of De coelo, along with the commentaries of Averroes upon them.

# Three smaller treatises of Averroes, under the title " Sheloshah Ma ' amarim " ( edited by J. Herez, with German translation: " Drei Abhandlungen über die Conjunction des Separaten Intellects mit den Menschen von Averroes, aus dem Arabischen Uebersetzt von Samuel ibn Tibbon ," Berlin, 1869 ).

This period begins with al-Kindi and ends with Averroes ( d. 1198 ).

However, in the Western thought, it is generally supposed that it was a specific area peculiar merely to the great philosophers of Islam: al-Kindi ( Alkindus ), al-Farabi ( Abunaser ), İbn Sina ( Avicenna ), Ibn Bajjah ( Avempace ), Ibn Rushd ( Averroes ), and Ibn Khaldun.

From the 9th century onwards, owing to Caliph al-Ma ' mun and his successor, Greek philosophy and Hellenistic philosophy were introduced among the Persians and Arabs, and the Peripatetic and Neoplatonic schools began to find able representatives among them ; such were al-Kindi, al-Farabi, Avicenna ( Ibn Sina ), and Averroes ( Ibn Rushd ), all of whose fundamental principles were considered as criticized by the Mutakallamin.

However, in the Western thought, it is generally known that it was a specific area peculiar merely to the great philosophers of Islam: al-Kindi ( Alkindus ), al-Farabi ( Alfarabi ), İbn Sina ( Avicenna ), Ibn Bajjah ( Avempace ), Ibn Rushd ( Averroes ), and Ibn Khaldun.

It is widely accepted that Copernicus's De revolutionibus followed the outline and method set by Ptolemy in his Almagest and employed geometrical constructions that had been developed previously by the Maragheh school in his heliocentric model, and that Galileo's mathematical treatment of acceleration and his concept of impetus rejected earlier medieval analyses of motion, rejecting by name ; Averroes, Avempace, Jean Buridan, and John Philoponus ( see Theory of impetus ).

Averroes ' name is also seen as Averroës, Averroès or Averrhoës, indicating that the " o " and the " e " form separate syllables.

Averroes is a Latinisation of the Arab name Ibn Rushd.

Averroes is also a highly regarded legal scholar of the Maliki school.

In metaphysics, or more exactly ontology, Averroes rejects the view advanced by Avicenna that existence is merely accidental.

Averroes is most famous for his commentaries of Aristotle's works, which had been mostly forgotten in the West.

Averroes is also a highly-regarded legal scholar of the Maliki school.

* Averroes appears in a short story by Jorge Luis Borges, entitled " Averroes's Search ", in which he is portrayed trying to find the meanings of the words tragedy and comedy.

* Averroes is also the title of a play called " The Gladius and The Rose ", written by Tunisian writer Mohamed Ghozzi, and which had the first price in the theater festival in Charjah in 1999.

In medieval virtue ethics, championed by Averroes and Thomas Aquinas and still important to Roman Catholicism, courage is referred to as " Fortitude ".

The opposite idea of " Existence precedes essence " was thus developed in the works of Averroes and Mulla Sadra as a reaction to this idea and is a key foundational concept of existentialism.

Thanks to Ibn Rushd ( Averroes ), Spain became a center of philosophical learning as is reflected by the explosion of philosophical inquiry among Jews, Muslims and Christians.

Averroes ( Ibn Rushd ) is most famous for his commentaries on Aristotle's works and for writing The Incoherence of the Incoherence in which he defended the falasifa against al-Ghazali's The Incoherence of the Philosophers.

Ibn Rushd ( Averroes ), a philosopher, famously responded that " to say that philosophers are incoherent is itself to make an incoherent statement.

" Averroës's Search " ( original Spanish title: " La Busca de Averroes ") is a 1947 short story by the Argentine writer Jorge Luis Borges.

His writings, however, show traces of the influence of Averroes, hence he is an Averroistic Aristotelean ; apparently he was also inclined to pantheism, consequently he was included, later, in the Spinozists before Spinoza.

) Another form of this argument is based on the concept of a prime-mover ; this Aristotelian form of the argument was also propounded by Averroes.

Another form of this argument is based on the concept of a prime-mover ( This is the Aristotelian form of the argument also propounded by Averroes ).

The difference between Thomism and Scotism could be expressed by saying that, while both derive from Arabic Neoplatonized Aristotelianism, Thomism is closer to the orthodox Aristotelianism of Maimonides, Averroes and Avicenna, while Scotism reflects the Platonizing tendency going back through Avicebron, the Brethren of Purity, the Liber de Causis and Proclus to Plotinus.