Ibn Rushd

            Ibn Rushd is known as the most important of all the Islamic philosophers. He was born in 1128 A.D in Cordova where his father and grandfather worked as judges. His grandfather was the Imam of the Jamia Mosque Cordova. Ibn Rushd studied philosophy and law as well as medicine in different institutions. He made significant contributions to philosophy, logic, medicine, music, and jurisprudence. He shed light on various aspects of medicine that include diagnoses, cure, and prevention of certain diseases. In philosophy, many Muslim scholars criticized his work though it had a significant influence on the European’s perceptions until the onset of modern philosophy and experimental science. He postulated the views on fate and claimed that man does not have a full control of his destiny, and it is not fully predetermined for him. He composed three commentaries on the work by Aristotle in Arabic translations.

            The common theme throughout his writings is that there lacks incompatibility between religion and philosophy upon having a clear understanding of both. His contribution to philosophy apart from the commentaries on Aristotle included the defense of philosophy attack to the critics in Islam and the development of a form of Aristotelianism that cleaned it. Most of his work is creative and also controversial that generated powerful arguments amongst his Jewish and Christian philosophical successors. According to him, there exist two forms of truths; one religious, and the other philosophical and that it is not necessary to consider the directions that they head. He doubts the possibility of immortality or God having the ability to know that certain events occurred. He suggests that religion suffers an inferiority complex from philosophy as a method of attaining knowledge. According to him, the understanding of religion to a common man is different from then available to a philosopher.       

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