Ibn Rushd Facts
Ibn Rushd Facts
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| He was born in Cordoba and was known throughout his life by his Latinized name of Averroes. |
| His family had a long history of public service and his father and grandfather were judges. |
| He received a traditional education in linguistics, law and theology and later took up the study of medicine. |
| Beginning in 1157 he was a prolific writer and he wrote over 20,000 pages covering many topics including Islamic philosophy, logic in Islamic philosophy, Islamic medicine, astronomy, Arabic grammar and Sharia law. |
| He wrote commentaries on Aristotle's works and on The Republic by the Greek philosopher, Plato. |
| His writings on Aristotle were important to the restoration of Aristotle's influence in the 12th and 13th centuries. |
| He wrote a medical encyclopedia and three books on physics. |
| He defined and measured force as "the rate at which work is done in changing the kinetic condition of a material body". |
| He was the first to develop the idea that bodies have an inherent resistance to motion which Johannes Kepler would later label "inertia". |
| Averroes tried to reconcile Aristotelian thought with religion and insisted that there is no conflict. |
| He was a highly respected legal scholar and in 1160 he served as a judge in Seville, Cordoba and Morocco. |
| He fell out of favor with the Fuqaha and in 1195 he was banished and his writings were burned. |
| He was allowed to return to Marrakesh in 1197 shortly before his death. |
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