- Lived:
- 1126–1198 CE · Córdoba, Seville, and Marrakesh, in Almohad al-Andalus and Morocco
- Tradition:
- Islamic Aristotelianism at its purest — a working Islamic judge who was also the greatest commentator Aristotle ever had
- The Big Idea:
- Reason and revelation cannot really conflict, because truth cannot contradict truth — and where scripture's surface seems to clash with demonstrated fact, it is the surface that must be reread.
- In their words:
- "Truth does not oppose truth but accords with it and bears witness to it."
- If you remember one thing:
- The philosopher his own civilization silenced became "the Commentator" whose books detonated inside another civilization — helping to build the European universities that would one day claim reason as their own invention.