The Sources And The Influences Of Ibn Rushd’s Philosophy

Ibn Rushd, better known as the commentator of Aristotle,stands out as a towering figure in the history of Arab-Islamic thought,he play a decisive role in the defense of Greek philosophy,especially Aristotle,against onslaught of the Ibn Sina,Al-Farabi, Al-Ghazali. and rehabilitation of Aristotle. For example,the existence of the God, the eternity of the world, reconciliation of reason and faith, on being and essence. In the western world, he was recognized, as early as the thirteenth century, as the commentator of Aristotle, contributing thereby to the rediscovery of the master, after centuries of near-total oblivion in the Western Europe. It is to be noted, as a well-known philosopher, that the correspondence of the view of Averroes and Aquinas regarding the Accidentality of being and the contingency of the universe,upheld by Avicenna.as the two greater heirs of the Aristotelian tradition, those two philosopher has a great deal in common.