Erwin I.J. Rosenthal
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LOCATION: Cambridge, United Kingdom
Reader in Oriental Studies, University of Cambridge, 1959–71. Author of Political Thought in Medieval Islam; editor of Averroës' Commentary on Plato's Republic.
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Averroës was an influential Islamic religious philosopher who integrated Islamic traditions with ancient Greek thought. At the request of the Almohad caliph Abū Yaʿqūb Yūsuf, he produced a series of summaries and commentaries on most of Aristotle’s works (1169–95) and on Plato’s Republic, which…
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