Personalities Changed History: Ibn Rushd-Averroes!

Personalities ChangedHistory: Ibn Rushd-Averroes! Hasan Yahya, Ph.D In the 12th century, the famous Islamic Philosopher and Ibn Rushd, known to the West as Averroes, claimed that women were equal to men in all respects and possessed equal capacities to shine in peace and war citing examples of female warriors among the Arabs, Greeks, and Africans to support his case. In early Muslim history, examples of notable female Muslims who fought during the Muslim conguests and Fitna (civil wars) as soldiers or generals included Nusaibah bint Ka?b al-Muzayniyyah, Aisha, Khawla and and Um Umarah. Thesame century witnessed the decline of Kalam school, it was attacked by both philosophers and orthodox. The most one who directly attacked Philosophy was Al-Ghazali, in his work, ?Tahafut al-Falasifah? (The Incoherence of the Philo best diet pills sophers) not only produced, by reaction, a current favorable to philosophy, but induced the philosophers themselves to profit by his criticism. The reaction to Al-Ghazali?s book, brought two of the greatest philosophers that the Islamic school ever produced, namely, Ibn Bajah (Avempace) and Ibn Rushd (Averroes), both of whom undertook the defense of philosophy. Ibn Roshd or (Averros), was contemporary of Maimonides, closed the first great philosophical era of the Muslims. The boldness of this great commentator of Aristotle aroused the full fury of the orthodox, who attacked all philosophers indiscriminately, and had all philosophical writings committed to the flames. The theories of Ibn Rushd do not differ fundamentally from those of Ibn Bajjah and Ibn Tufail, who only follow the teachings of Ibn Sina and Al-Farabi.

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