Ibn Rushd born at Cordoba

1126

In al-Andalus a boy was born who would grow up to write commentaries on Aristotle so thorough that Latin Christendom would call him simply the Commentator. Averroes's rational philosophy would be condemned in Paris and absorbed by Aquinas within a century and a half. His insistence that reason and revelation operated in separate spheres opened a fault line in medieval thought that neither Islam nor Christianity ever fully closed.