According to Averroes, there are two methods of teaching virtue to citizens; persuasion and coercion | In 1270, the issued against 15 doctrines—many of which were Aristotelian or Averroist—that he said were in conflict with the doctrines of the church |
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1111 landmark criticism of philosophy | This was the beginning of Averroes's massive commentaries on Aristotle; his first works on the subject were written in 1169 |
For example, of his long commentaries on Aristotle, only "a tiny handful of Arabic manuscript remains".
11In 1169 Ibn Tufayl introduced Averroes to the Almohad caliph | , including a full bibliography of his works• He also says the Almoravid and the Almohad empires started as ideal, shariah-based states but then deteriorated into , , and |
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He was targeted on various charges—likely for political reasons—and was exiled to nearby | Therefore, Averroes argues that a designer was behind the creation and that is God |
His focus on Aristotle's works was outdated in the twelfth-century Muslim world, which had already scrutinized Aristotle since the ninth century and by now was engaging deeply with newer schools of thought, especially that of Avicenna.
10For the most part, Averroes's medical work Al-Kulliyat fi al-Tibb follows the medical doctrine of Galen, an influential Greek physician and author from the 2nd century, which was based on —blood, yellow bile, black bile, and phlegm, whose balance is necessary for the health of the human body | He joined a regular meeting of philosophers, physicians and poets in which was attended by philosophers and as well as the future caliph |
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Soon after, Averroes's works propagated among Christian scholars in the tradition | Juan Eduardo Campo, Encyclopedia of Islam, Infobase Publishing, 2009, p |
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