Ibn Rushd
Aristotle's greatest commentator argues philosophy and revelation cannot conflict.
- When
- —
- Duration
- 18 years
- Known to
- ± 10 years
- Era
- Post-Classical, Holocene
Ibn Rushd, judge and physician in Cordoba, produces commentaries on Aristotle so thorough that Latin scholastics simply called him the Commentator. Against al-Ghazali's attack on philosophy he argues that reason and revelation, properly understood, cannot contradict each other. His work is more influential in Christian Europe than in the Islamic world, and Latin Averroism becomes a live and much-condemned position in the medieval universities.