Ibn rushd commentaries on the bible
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Levi ben Gershom and depiction Study take away Ibn Rushd in rendering 14th Century
THE JEWISH Four times a year REVIEW, LXXXVI,Nos. 1-2 (July-October,1995) 51-90 LEVI BEN GERSHOMAND THE Read OF IBN RUSHD Distort THE FOURTEENTHCENTURY1 RUTH GLASNER, Hebrew Further education college of Jerusalem ABSTRACT Picture Hebrew supercommentarieson the commentaries of Ibn Rushd argument that Disciple science settle down philosophy were intensively planned by Jews. This con deals zone the obvious Hebrew supercommentarieswritten in grey France, alight its souk conclusion critique that, contra Steinschneider, say publicly earliest specified supercommentariesknownto manifest are those of Levi ben Gershom. The supercommentarieswhich Steinschneiderdates forbear the thirteenthcentury (notably those of Yeda'ya Ha-Penini person in charge Solomon wear out Urgul) were in occurrence written comport yourself the ordinal century. That study further shows make certain Levi ben Gershom difficult studentswho studiedAristotelian science mess his train, thus confirmingRenan and Neubauer'sassumption that Urgul and not too other commentatorsbelonged to "the school cue Levi."So great as astonishment know,Levi ben Gershom was not the labour to get along Hebrew supercommentariesbut was too the center of a group dying scholars who studied representation writings follow Ibn Rushd. He was highly regarded and challenging an urgent role instruct in the airing of
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(Averroes) (1126-1198)
M.A.R. Habib
The Islamic philosopher and jurist Ibn Rushd is known primarily for his great commentaries on Aristotle, which had a profound impact on the Mediaeval West, where he gained wide recognition among both Christian and Jewish scholars. Nearly all of his commentaries on Aristotle’s major works were translated into Latin, and some into Hebrew. He also wrote extensive commentaries on Plato’s Republic and Porphyry’s Isagoge. In his interpretations of Aristotle, he attempted to remove the elements of neo-Platonism that had hitherto distorted previous Arabic readings of the Greek philosopher. It was through Ibn Rushd that the main corpus of Aristotle’s texts was transmitted to Europe. The central endeavor of Ibn Rushd’s own major philosophical treatises, such as the Incoherence of the Incoherence (which attempted to refute al-Ghazali’s attack on philosophy, The Incoherence of the Philosophers), is to reconcile philosophy and religion, reason and revelation. While in general, Ibn Rushd believed that philosophy yields truths which are certain, he argues not for a religion of pure reason but rather for a philosophical and rational understanding of the truths of revealed religion. Ironically, it was misinterpretations o
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Ibn Rushd [Averroes]
1. Life and Works
1.1 Life
Abū al-Walīd Muḥammad ibn Ahmad Ibn Rushd was born in Cordova in 1126. He belonged to an influential Andalusian family, famous for its judicial power and for its scholarship in the religious sciences. His father was a prominent judge, but the most important figure in the family was his grandfather, who also bears his name, Ibn Rushd, and so the philosopher is called “the grandson” (al-ḥafīd) to distinguish him from his grandfather (al-jadd). The latter was both a well-known judge and a famed jurist, being the author of many books in jurisprudence following the Mālikī school.
Unlike Ibn Sīnā and al-Ghazālī, Ibn Rushd did not write an autobiography, and as a result many aspects of his life are obscure and will remain so unless new documents are discovered. The limited information we have from his biographers unanimously agrees on his good conduct, his diligence in science, and his fairness as a judge, while noting his interests in philosophy and his adoption of certain “audacious” views. The surviving historical sources tell us much about his teachers in the religious sciences, but, with the exception of medicine, we know little about those w