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Chance and determinism in Avicenna and Averroes.(Brief Article)(Book Review)
Magazine article from: Reference & Research Book News; 5/1/2007; 114 words
; 9789004155879 Chance and determinism in Avicenna and Averroes. Belo, Catarina. BRILL 2007 252 pages $120.00 Hardcover...explores whether Avicenna, Ibn Sina, (d.428/1037) and Averroes, Ibn Rushd, (d.595/1198) are determinists and if so, in...
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Buddha: The Enlightened One.(RELIGION)(Brief Article)(Book Review)
Magazine article from: Reference & Research Book News; 8/1/2005; 81 words
; ...2005-043088 1-59223-400-3 Buddha; the enlightened one. Khan, Gabriele Mandel. Thunder Bay Press, [c]2004 143 p. $14.95 Khan (Averroes International Islamic U., Spain) offers a concise overview of Buddhism, its origins, and all its diverse forms and variations...
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Kudos at Cannes. (50th Cannes Film Festival awards the Palme d'Or to Abas Kiarostami)
Magazine article from: The Middle East; 7/1/1997; ; 700+ words
; ...story of the wise Arabic philosopher Averroes (also known as Abu al-Walid Muhammad...Islam and for the film-maker himself. Averroes' protector, the Caliph, falls under the...a fundamentalist sect and orders all Averroes' books, which he accuses of preaching...
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Enlightening revolutions; essays in honor of Ralph Lerner.(book)(Brief Article)(Book Review)
Magazine article from: Reference & Research Book News; 8/1/2006; 147 words
; ...philosophy and of religion to both. Topics include prudence, imagination, and determination of law in Alfarabi and Maimonides; Averroes, Dante, and the dawn of European Enlightenment; law and innovation in Machiavelli's Prince; Adam Smith on natural liberty and...
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Strange country.(CENTURY marks)(Brief article)
Magazine article from: The Christian Century; 4/22/2008; 86 words
; ...interest in classical Arabic poetry His songs are as likely to be about philosophers--one of his songs is called Aristotle and Averroes --as about broken hearts. Salama, 30, has two self-produced albums and is talking with an independent record label about a...
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Notes on medical scholarship and the broad intellectual milieu in sixteenth-century Portugal.(analysis of Dialogo da perfeycam e partes que sam necessarias ao bom medico )
Magazine article from: Portuguese Studies; 1/1/1999; ; 700+ words
; ...authoritative texts in the original. These included works by Celsus, Hippocrates, Galen, Avicenna, Aristotle, Plato, Rhazes and Averroes. The two characters of the dialogue also agree that a proficient physician should be acquainted with natural philosophy, astrology...
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Medieval philosophy; essential readings with commentary.(Brief Article)(Book Review)
Magazine article from: Reference & Research Book News; 11/1/2007; 119 words
; ...the soul, and freedom of the will. Besides Augustine, some of the regular suspects are Aquinas, Boethius, Anselm Avicenna, Averroes, Duns Scotus, and Occam. References are provided for further study on particular topics or writers. ([c]20072005 Book News...
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Notes & asides.(Column)
Magazine article from: National Review; 12/13/2004; ; 593 words
; ...in the Colosseum took a stand against it, shouting out ( clamavit fortiter ) that P.C. was too PC to bandy about, whereupon Averroes led the movement to change it to B.C. He was thought neutral in the matter, since he was of course a Muslim. Cordially, WFB...
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The Aristotelian Mr. Eliot: structure and strategy in The Waste Land.(T. S. Eliot)(Critical essay)
Magazine article from: Yeats Eliot Review; 6/22/2007; ; 700+ words
; ...system with Christian theology arose from Averroes' earlier translation of Aristotle, which, Aquinas believed, was invalidated by Averroes' commentary that cast Aristotle in a...slant. Moreover, Aquinas believed that Averroes had misrepresented Aristotle's method...
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From Cordoba to autos-da-fe: recent books on medieval Spain's religious conflicts offer lessons for today.(A Vanished World: Medieval Spain's Golden Age of Enlightenment; The Spanish Inquisition)(Book Review)
Magazine article from: National Catholic Reporter; 2/10/2006; ; 700+ words
; ...religion championed by Moses Maimonides and Averroes, as well as the promise of a mystical...significant that both Maimonides and Averroes were banished from Cordoba for their...Christian Spain. As Mr. Lowney puts it, While Averroes, Maimonides, Ibn Arabi, and Moses de...
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