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Why did the Latin scholastics call Ibn Rushd simply “the Commentator”?
I'm an accountant with a weakness for medieval philosophy, mostly Eriugena and Boethius. Reading Aquinas for the first time, I keep meeting references to "the Philosopher", who is Aristotle, and "the Commentator", who turns out to be Ibn Rushd, Averroes. I'd like…
Started by Siobhán Keane4 replies218 views -
Reading Rumi as love poetry without the path is reading something he did not write
I am an architect in Shiraz, and I grew up hearing the Masnavi read aloud. Its opening, the lament of the reed cut from its reed-bed, longing to return, is perhaps the most famous passage in Persian. Abroad, Rumi is one of…
Started by Reza Tehrani5 replies182 views