Ibn Rushd (Averroes)#Ibn
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Ibn Rushd (Averroes) · 1126–1198 CE
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“The philosopher his own civilization silenced became "the Commentator" whose books detonated inside another civilization — helping to build the European universities that would one day claim reason as their own invention.”
The big idea, in the book's words:
“Reason and revelation cannot really conflict, because truth cannot contradict truth — and where scripture's surface seems to clash with demonstrated fact, it is the surface that must be reread.”
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