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Averroes

noun

Arabian philosopher born in Spain; wrote detailed commentaries on Aristotle that were admired by the Schoolmen (1126-1198). Synonyms: Abul-Walid Mohammed ibn-Ahmad Ibn-Mohammed ibn-Roshd, ibn-Roshd.

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"Averroes" Quotes from Famous Books

... beneath all that finished, material, limited knowledge; he had, perhaps, risked his soul, and had seated himself in the cavern at that mysterious table of the alchemists, of the astrologers, of the hermetics, of which Averroes, Gillaume de Paris, and Nicolas Flamel hold the end in the Middle Ages; and which extends in the East, by the light of the seven-branched candlestick, ...

— Notre-Dame de Paris - The Hunchback of Notre Dame • Victor Hugo

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