Ibn Rushd (Averroes)
The Commentator — Aristotle's greatest interpreter
The medieval West knew him simply as The Commentator. His meticulous commentaries on Aristotle shaped European Scholasticism so profoundly that Aquinas could not write the Summa without engaging him on nearly every page.
Key works
- Grand Commentaries on Aristotle~1169-1195— The most detailed Aristotelian commentaries ever written — shaped Scholasticism
- The Incoherence of the Incoherence~1180— Defense of philosophy against al-Ghazali's critique