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| | Ibn Rushd [Internet Encyclopedia of Philosophy] |
 | | Ibn Rushd concludes by discussing divine hearing and vision, and notes that scripture relates these attributes to God in the sense that he perceives things in existing things that are not apprehended by the intellect. | | | Beginning with the doctrine of divine unity, Ibn Rushd challenges the Asharite argument that there cannot, by definition, be two gods for any disagreement between them would entail that one or both cannot be God. | | | Ibn Rushd’s critique turns the apologetic on its head, contending that if there were two gods, there is an equal possibility of both gods working together, which would mean that both of their wills were fulfilled. |
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| | Saudi Aramco World : Doctor, Philosopher, Renaissance Man |
| | Ibn Rushd refers frequently to the Qur'an and the hadith —the traditions, or reports of the Prophet Muhammad's words and deeds—in his works on natural science, while echoes of his philosophical works can be found in his legal writings. | | | The Islamic rejection of Ibn Rushd as a philosopher is no doubt partly because of the criticism that he subordinated religion to philosophy, suggesting that scientific research could teach people more than the revelations of faith—a criticism also leveled at him by the Catholic church in the West. | | | This was the case with Abu 'I-Walid Muhammad ibn Rushd, who came to be known to the west as Averro&. |
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| | Averroes As A Physician |
| | Ibn Rushd was well versed in the matters of the faith and law, which qualified him for the post of Qaadi (judge), but he was also keenly interested in philosophy and logic. | | | Ibn Rushd commented that Islam aims at true knowledge, which is knowledge of God and of His creation. | | | One of them was Ibn Rushd known in the West as Averroes, who is universally aknoweldge as the great philosopher of Islam and one of the greatest of all times. |
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| | Ibn Rushd's Criticisms of the Theologians’ Arguments for the Existence of God |
| | Given his view of human beings and their rational capacities as thinking beings and the limitations of inductive inference, Ibn Rushd believes that it is not unreasonable to infer from the existence of design and invention in the world the existence of an Inventor or Creator for it who is God. | | | The lessons that we learn from Ibn Rushd’s criticisms of the theologians' arguments for the existence of God are numerous. | | | In this book, Ibn Rushd argues that the theologians, in general, and the Ash’arites, in particular, used the presumed superiority of their arguments for the existence of God to exercise unjustified power over the lives of the Muslim community. |
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| | Averroes(Ibn Rushd): The Great Muslim Philosopher |
| | This false interpretation of Ibn Rushd’s doctrine was considered as sacrilegious by the Church and universally denounced by its leaders. | | | Ibn Rushd explains that there are three types of men: the first and largest in number, is receptive to ideas that can be expressed logically; the second is amenable to persuasion and the third, few in numbers, will only be convinced by conclusive evidence. | | | Aware of the inconsistency between those who believed through religious faith and others who believed by use of reason, Ibn Rushd held that both philosophy and revealed religion were true, arguing that truth is comprehended on different levels. |
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http://www.alhewar.org/SEPTEMBER%2011/habib_saloum_averroes.htm
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| | MuslimHeritage.com - Topics |
| | Ibn Rushd's philosophy was in the tradition of prevailing Islamic scholasticism, with attempts to synthesize Islamic faith and reason in light of the available Greek heritage. | | | Whereas some Muslim scholastics and their Latin successors tried to "Islamise" and "Christianise" Hellenism, Ibn Rushd's commentaries and rationalism seemed to excessively "Hellenise" Islam and Christianity. | | | For any 'apparent' conflict between the religious texts and the philosophical texts, it is the duty of philosophers, whom the Qur'an calls "those who are confirmed in knowledge" ( Qur'an, Sura 3:5-6), according to Ibn Rushd's reading, to resolve the conflict by recourse to the method of interpretation. |
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http://www.islamicheritage.com/topics/default.cfm?ArticleID=413
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| | What is Independent Thinking? |
| | However, Ibn Rushd was also convinced that the philosophers approach to both nature and revealed text was superior to that of the fuqaha (jurists) and the mutkallimoon (theologians). | | | Ibn Rushd, like Al-Kindi, Al-Farabi and Ibn Sina before him, saw no discordance between religion and philosophy. | | | Jadal according to Ibn Rushd was the method used by theologians. |
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| | The Guiding Helper Foundation - Maliki Principles Questions |
| | All Ibn Rushd was doing here was choosing one of several opinions narrated by Imam Malik, using primary texts as *one* of his basises for deciding. | | | These principles are taken from many places in the primary texts and particularly the famous hadith of al-Nu`man Ibn Bashir: The Prophet (May Allah bless him and give him peace) said, "The lawful is clear and the unlawful is clear but between these two things are unclear matters which many people do not know about. | | | For the Hanafi School this could be considered to be the dhahiru r-riwayah of Muhammad al-Shaybani. |
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| | V. The Problem Of The Vicegerent In Ibn Rushd And Ibn Tufail |
| | There can be no doubt that whatever Ghazzâlî's doctrine of the Vicegerent was, and whatever else his esoteric doctrine contained, the emanational theory formed no part of that doctrine. | | | On the other hand, the existence of an esoteric doctrine in regard to this Vicegerent and his function is undeniable (and undenied); and it is clear, from the comparison of the Mishkât itself with the Munqidh, that that doctrine differed vitally from the one professed by Ghazzâlî exoterically ( Munqidh, p. | | | The words of Ibn Rushd are as follows: |
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| | The Islamic World to 1600: The Arts, Learning, and Knowledge (Ibn Rushd) |
| | Abu'l Waleed Muhammad Ibn Ahmad Ibn Muhammad Ibn Rushd, born in 1126 in Cordoba, then part of Muslim Spain, was one of the greatest thinkers and scientists of the 12th century. | | | Despite his vehement defence of philosophy, however, Ibn Rushd was a devoted Muslim who also tried to integrate Plato's political views with the modern Islamic state, to bring Greek thought and Islamic traditions into harmony. | | | He used Greek arguments for rationalism to question several tenets of Islamic theology, earning the criticism of many Muslim religious scholars, such as Al-Ghazali. |
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| | Islamic Medical Manuscripts, Medical Poetry 3 |
| | Two additional commentaries are in the collections of NLM: a rather rare one written in the 15th century by Musa ibn Ibrahim al-Baghdadi and a unique copy of a hitherto unknown commentary written earlier in the same century by ‘Ali ibn ‘Abd Allah ibn Haydur. | | | The opening of a commentary on Ibn Sina's [ Avicenna 's] famous poem written by ‘Ali ibn ‘Abd Allah ibn Haydur, who died in 1413/816 H. This is the only recorded copy of this commentary. | | | 1, lines 3-4, as Abu al-Walid Muhammad ibn Muhammad ibn Ahmad ibn Rushd. |
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| | H-Net Review: Eric Ormsby on Averroes (Ibn Rushd): His Life, Works and Influence |
| | The assumptions shared by Maimonides, a Jew, and Ibn Rushd, a Muslim, not only drew on a common language, Arabic, but went beyond doctrinal affiliations to envision a faith articulated and buttressed by a scrupulous and yet reverent rationalism. | | | I mention this because of the strange and anomalous position which Ibn Rushd has come to occupy in the history of Islamic philosophy; on the one hand, as the summation and summit of Aristotelianism in Arabic and on the other, as a dead-end figure who left neither followers nor lasting influence in the East. | | | As useful and welcome as this introduction is--and I certainly intend to use it in teaching Ibn Rushd--it is unfortunately marred by evidences of haste and carelessness in the text, ranging from inconsistencies in transliteration of Arabic names and words to a rather high proportion of typos and outright errors. |
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http://www.h-net.org/reviews/showrev.cgi?path=227091077594594
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| | NBI: Philosophers: Averroes (Ibn Rushd), School of Athens |
| | Arabic in full, “Abù Al-Walid Muhammad Ibn Ahmad Ibn Muhammad Ibn Rushd”), born 1126 CE (Cordoba), died 1198 CE (Marrakech, Almohad Empire), was an influential Islamic religious philosopher who integrated Islamic traditions and Greek thought. | | | IBN RUSHD: Tahfut at Tahafut (in Arabic, at Ahmed Deedat's Page), ed. | | | IBN RUSHD: Fasl al-Maqal ( Faith & Reason) (e-text, in Arabic, at Hozien Family website), unedited |
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| | "A Comparative Study of Some Aspects of the Metaphysics of Aristotle and Ibn Rushd". | | | IÊmÁÝ and TaÞwÐl in the Conflict between Al-Ghazali and Ibn Rushd (Islamic Philosophy and Theology. | | | Their thought in the light of faith and reason. |
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| | Averroes - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia |
| | In Arabic (the language in which he wrote), it is Abu Al-Walid Muhammad Ibn Ahmad Ibn Muhammad Ibn Ahmad Ibn Ahmad Ibn Rushd أبو الوليد محمد بن احمد بن محمد بن احمد بن احمد بن رشد or just Ibn Rushd. | | | His father, Abu Al-Qasim Ahmad, held the same position until the coming of the Almohad dynasty in 1146. | | | It was Ibn Tufail (" Abubacer " to the West), the philosophic vizier of Yusef al-Mansur, who introduced Averroes to the court and to Avenzoar (Ibn Zuhr), the great Muslim physician; both men became friends. |
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| | Winds of Change.NET: Islam: Between Copying and Thinking |
| | ), which are distinctly lacking in rationality, with the writings of Ibn Rushd, in which rationality reigns supreme, I am amazed that the battle waged between the exponents of these two distinct schools ten centuries ago should have ended up in a clear victory for Al-Ghazali and a crushing defeat for Ibn Rushd. | | | Meanwhile, the Muslim world continued to be ruled by despots who brooked no challenge to their authority and an equally despotic religious establishment which decried the use of reason and demanded blind adherence to the authority of tradition. | | | The success of this campaign found its most salient expression in the emergence of fanatical movements like the Taliban, who interpreted the doctrines of religion on the basis of tradition alone and imposed a scholastic, doctrinal brand of Islam that left no room for the exercise of reason. |
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| | Biographical Information on Ibn Rushd |
| | The works of Ibn Rushd also aroused admiration in Europe, even among those theologians who saw a danger for religious faith in his writings. | | | On December 10, 1198 (Safar 9, 595 AH) Ibn Rushd died in Marrakesh. | | | In the XIIIth century, Ibn Rushd was condemned by bishops from Paris, Oxford and Canterbury for reasons similar to those that had caused his condemnation by the orthodox Muslims in Spain. |
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| | BEIT AL HIKMAH : The International Sumposium on Ibn Rushd ( Averroës ) |
| | To honour Ibn Rushd is not simply an act of remembrance or a gesture of faith; he has perhaps never meant so much to us as in this day and age. | | | It is amazing the place Ibn Rushd holds in the history of human thought. | | | This is why Ibn Rushd still stands nowadays as an unrivalled guide at a time when so many powers - some obscurantist here and some destructive there - work for the termination of the power of Reason. |
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| | Ibn Rushd (Averroes): Website |
| | Ibn Rushd's Criticisms of the Theologians’ Arguments for the Existence of God By: I. Najjar (link) | | | Ibn Rushd Encyclopedia of Religion article (PDF e-text) File Size: 252KB. | | | Ibn Rushd (Averroes) is regarded by many as the foremost Islamic philosopher. |
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| | AL GHAZALI AND AVERROES |
| | Al-Ghazali, known to the Latins as Algazel, dates 1058-1111, born near Mashhad (Iran), taught in Baghdad and other places: a theologian and mystic, who studied philosophy but was not satisfied. | | | Avicenna (ibn Sina), dates 980-1037, born near Bukhara in Uzbekistan, died in Isfahan (in Iran). | | | Averroes (ibn Rochd), dates 1126-1198, was born at Cordova in Spain, at that time largely Muslim, spent some time in Morocco, for some time a judge in Seville, author of a series of detailed commentaries on the works of Aristotle. |
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| | Ibn Rushd: the voice of rationality |
| | I have to read 2 books for these first 3 weeks, and they are terrible. | | | posted by ibn @ 9:45 AM 0 comments | | | I have 4 more days of school left, and then I will be free to write for this blog a few more posts as well as work on the book that I'm writing. |
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| | Philosophical Dictionary: I proposition-Implication |
| | As a leading neoplatonist, Ibn Sina emphasized the causal necessity that characterizes emanations from the divine, but supposed that human knowledge can best be achieved by mystical illumination. | | | Ibn Daud defended free will by proposing limitations on the extent of divine omnipotence. | | | His distinction between the essence and the will of god had significant influence on the thought of Duns Scotus. |
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| | Ibn Rushd ( Averroè ) figura rappresentativa della civiltà araba. |
| | bn Rushd (Abû al-Walîd Muhammad ibn Ahmad ibn Muhammad ibn Ahmad ibn Ahmad inb Rushd) nacque nel 1126 a Cordova e morì a Marrakech il 10 dicembre 1198. | | | Furono quindi ragioni di stato che obbligarono al-Mansûr ad allontanare Ibn Rushd anche perché la minima debolezza del sovrano sarebbe stata immediatamente sfruttata dai principi cristiani di Castiglia e León. | | | Il maestro di Ibn Rushd era Ibn Zuhr grande medico che teneva corsi non solo in Andalusia, ma anche a Salerno e a Montpellier, scuole di medicina fondate ambedue dagli arabi. |
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| | CATHOLIC ENCYCLOPEDIA: Averroes |
| | Ibn Roschd, or Averroes, as he was called by the Latins, was educated in his native city, where his father and grandfather had held the office of cadi (judge in civil affairs) and had played an important part in the political history of Andalusia. | | | If an ad appears here that contradicts Catholic teachings, please click here to notify the webmaster. | | | Arabian philosopher, astronomer, and writer on jurisprudence; born at Cordova, 1126; died at Morocco, 1198. |
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| | Ibn Rushd on Encyclopedia.com |
| | Early Maliki Law: Ibn [[blank].sup.[subset]]Abd al-Hakam and his Major Compendium of Jurisprudence. | | | Paul Lettinck, Aristotle's Meteorology and its Reception in the Arab World with an Edition and Translation of Ibn Suwar's Treatise on Meteorological Phenomena and Ibn Bajja's Commentary on the Meteorology.(Book Review) | | | Arab Greats Ibn Battuta, the lone time traveller, THE STAR |
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| | Abu al-Walid Muhammad b. Ahmad Ibn Rushd |
| | Man vermutet, dass Ibn Rushd etwa 50 bis 80 größere Werke verfaßt hat, darunter das Werk Über die mögliche Vernunft, in dem die aristotelische Logik dargelegt wird. | | | Auch die Bewegung, deren Substrat die Materie ist, existiert von Ewigkeit her. | | | Ibn Rushd vertrat die Lehre von der doppelten Wahrheit und bekämpfte die orthodoxe und antiaristotelische Philosophie von al-Ghazàlì. |
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| | Biographies Info Science : Averroès (Ibn Rushd) |
| | Abu al-Walid Muhammad ibn Rushd de son vrai nom, lettré de grande culture, Averroès reste connu comme excellent médecin, juriste de génie et philosophe commentateur d’ Aristote. | | | Cette position ne l’empêche pas de poursuivre son autre charge, celle de juriste. | | | Devant tant d’aptitudes, Ibn Tufayl le présente à la cour des Almohades : il devient alors le médecin personnel d’Abu Yaqub Yusuf, calife de Marrakech. |
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| | Ibn Rushd |
| | Interesting collection of material on Ibn Rushd, including web pages, biographical information, excerpts from his works and more. | | | biography; bibliography; online articles; photographs; islam; philosophy; Ibn Rushd; Averro¨es, 1126-1198; philosophers |
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