Arab Andalusian Muslim writer and philosopher (1126–1198)

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Averroes. Lithograph by P. R. Vignéron, 1825, after Raphael.

The school of Athens: a gathering of ancient philosophers. Engraving by G. Mochetti after Raphael.

The school of Athens: a gathering of Greek philosophers disputing with Saint Paul the Apostle. Engraving by G. Ghisi, 1550, after Raphael.

The School of Athens: a key to the figures in the centre of the composition. Engraving by G. Volpato, after Raphael.

The school of Athens: a gathering of ancient philosophers. Engraving by J. & T. Bartlett, 1835, after Raphael.

The school of Athens: a gathering of ancient philosophers. Engraving by G. Volpato after G. Cades after Raphael.

Averroes. Line engraving by D. Cunego, 1785, after A. R. Mengs after Raphael Sanzio.

Averroès : les ambitions d'un intellectuel musulman / Dominique Urvoy.

The epistle on the possibility of conjunction with the active intellect / by Ibn Rushd ; with the commentary of Moses Narboni ; a critical edition and annotated translation by Kalman P. Bland.

Ambrosii Nolani philosophi ac medici praestantissimi, Castigationes aduersus Auerroem, recens impress[ae], cum eiusdem archetypo diligenter recognit[ae], cunctis[que] mendis expurgatae. Addito insuper priori antiquo indici altero longe eruditiore nuperrime excogitato, in quo omnia scitu digna & cognitu in toto volumine contenta alphabetice demonstrant[ur].

The philosophical poetics of Alfarabi, Avicenna and Averroes : the Aristotelian reception / Salim Kemal.

Chance and determinism in Avicenna and Averroes / by Catarina Belo.

Averrois Cordubensis commentarium medium in Porphyrii Isagogen et Aristotelis Categorias : Textum Hebraicum recensuit et adnotationibus illustrauit / Herbert A. Davidson.

Die Epitome der Metaphysik des Averroes / übersetzt und mit einer Einleitung und Erläuterungen versehen von Dr. S. van den Bergh.

Talkhīṣ kitāb ʼArisṭūṭālīs Ffi al-jadal / taʼalīf Abu-l-walīd ibn Rushd ; tahqīq wa taʻalīq Duktūr Muḥammad Salīm Sālim.

Masāʼil Abī al-Walīd ibn Rushd (al-jadd) : taḥqīq ʻan sitt nusakh khaṭṭīyah maʻa dirāsah ʻan al-muʼallif wa-al-kitāb / Muḥammad al-Ḥabīb al-Tajkānī.

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Averroes

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Averrois Cordubensis commentarium medium in Porphyrii Isagogen et Aristotelis Categorias : Textum Hebraicum recensuit et adnotationibus illustrauit / Herbert A. Davidson.

The epistle on the possibility of conjunction with the active intellect / by Ibn Rushd ; with the commentary of Moses Narboni ; a critical edition and annotated translation by Kalman P. Bland.

Die Epitome der Metaphysik des Averroes / übersetzt und mit einer Einleitung und Erläuterungen versehen von Dr. S. van den Bergh.

Talkhīṣ kitāb ʼArisṭūṭālīs Ffi al-jadal / taʼalīf Abu-l-walīd ibn Rushd ; tahqīq wa taʻalīq Duktūr Muḥammad Salīm Sālim.

Masāʼil Abī al-Walīd ibn Rushd (al-jadd) : taḥqīq ʻan sitt nusakh khaṭṭīyah maʻa dirāsah ʻan al-muʼallif wa-al-kitāb / Muḥammad al-Ḥabīb al-Tajkānī.

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Averroes

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Images featuring Averroes

Works from the collections

Averrois Cordubensis commentarium medium in Porphyrii Isagogen et Aristotelis Categorias : Textum Hebraicum recensuit et adnotationibus illustrauit / Herbert A. Davidson.

The epistle on the possibility of conjunction with the active intellect / by Ibn Rushd ; with the commentary of Moses Narboni ; a critical edition and annotated translation by Kalman P. Bland.

Die Epitome der Metaphysik des Averroes / übersetzt und mit einer Einleitung und Erläuterungen versehen von Dr. S. van den Bergh.

Talkhīṣ kitāb ʼArisṭūṭālīs Ffi al-jadal / taʼalīf Abu-l-walīd ibn Rushd ; tahqīq wa taʻalīq Duktūr Muḥammad Salīm Sālim.

Masāʼil Abī al-Walīd ibn Rushd (al-jadd) : taḥqīq ʻan sitt nusakh khaṭṭīyah maʻa dirāsah ʻan al-muʼallif wa-al-kitāb / Muḥammad al-Ḥabīb al-Tajkānī.

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