Averroes

Portugal, was dominated by one of the richest and most intellectually powerful civilizations in the world, the Muslims. It would take Europeans until 1492, with the help from Ferdinand II of Aragon and Isabella I of Castile and their Reconquista and Inquisition, to expel the Moors from Spain. Immediately after, their expulsion ushered in the Spanish “discovery” of the New World which would forever impact Western Civilization. But we all know how that story goes. I would like to posit a new…

about topics such as logic, medicine, mathematics, linguistics, and much more. In fact, his book on medicine was used for centuries. He looked at works from Aristotle and made modifications such as adding seven interior senses. On the other hand, Averroes wrote commentaries on Aristotle’s philosophy. He made contributions such as discovering that the retina is light-sensitive and observed that those who survived after attaining small pox were immune to the disease suggesting immunization as a…

In the fifth and sixth centuries AD, previous to the rise of Islam, the clans of the Arabian Peninsula played only minimal part in what was already a highly developed and complex culture, dominated by the two great superpowers of the era, which were the Byzantines and Sasanian Empire. Islamic art was vastly influenced by the Byzantines and Sasanians Empire. Between, 750 to 1500 the Islamic world developed and perfected some of the old techniques that were initially used by the Romans like the…

6. From the middle of the eighth century until Muslims were exiled from Spain in 1492, Islamic culture and civilization exerted broad and lasting influences on Western culture. This period, known as the Islamic Golden Age, saw advances in science, philosophy, medicine and education. Great centers of Muslim learning under the Abbasid dynasty, started knowledge and scientific development that spread from Alexandria and Baghdad to Europe. The architecture flourished in Muslim Spain, later…

I.Introduction Different questions have arisen throughout all centuries on God. Finding identities, descriptions, and characteristics of God has been, and continues to be one of human's’ biggest inquiries. One area of inquiry is the study of natural theology which is a study of science that tries to use natural evidences and explanations to justify the existence of a God (Zeyl, 2005). Before it was declared as a type of study or inquiry, ancient philosophers such as Aristotle,…

The philosopher Averroes said, “Behavior is imposed by nature, not the other way around.” People have always asked whether nurture, being the way one is raised, or nature, being where one is brought up, determines the way people behave and ultimately, the type of person one becomes. Throughout F. Scott Fitzgerald’s The Great Gatsby, various locations are introduced that parallel to particular types of occupants. The geography of the novel is primarily composed of four scenes: East Egg, West Egg,…

theories revitalized the link between philosophy and theology in Western Christian Europe at a time when Europe looked likely to follow the footsteps of the Muslim world by spurning their own innovative thinker just like the Muslims had done with Averroes. However, Aquinas’ works including the most famous one, Summa Theologica, were widely acclaimed for acknowledging that both reason and religion were compatible and intertwined. Aquinas was a staunch proponent of inductive reasoning and use of…

at age 5, and later moved to the Studien Generale, a newly founded university in Naples. At this university, he had access to Petrus de Ibernia, who aside from teaching him geometry, astronomy, and music, taught him the philosophies of Aristotle, Averroes, and Maimonides. In Outliers, Gladwell points out that people who have more time to spend studying or practicing a specific set of skills, tend to have that time because of outside forces. They don’t have the need to work a job, or raise…

Quite a bit of our insight about state strategy under the Mauryas originates from the Arthashastra composed by Kautilya (all the more famously known as Chanakya), who was a Brahmin pastor under Chandragupta Maurya. In spite of the fact that it was composed toward the end of the fourth century BC, it seems to have been rediscovered just in 1905, following quite a while of insensibility. The treatise in its present structure is in all probability not the content composed by Kautilya, however it is…

Annotated Bibliography Geldart, A. (1999). Islam. Oxford: Heinemann. This book provided an in-depth understanding of Islam. The book describes: Islam’s origins, diverse traditions, Holy Scriptures, beliefs and institutions. The book also describes the social injustices surrounding Islam and how the faith addresses them. This source was valuable as it allowed for an initial understanding on the faith, and aided the creation of research questions, such as, ‘Who was the founder of the Islamic…