Ibn Rushd (Averroes)
1126 – 1198 · Spain · Philosophy, Medicine
His Aristotle commentaries restarted European philosophy.
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- Avicenna's student Al-Juzjani
980 – 1070 · Medicine, History
The transmission of the Avicennan corpus westward is what gave Averroes his text.
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- Thomas Aquinas
1225 – 1274 · Philosophy
Aquinas argues throughout the Summa with 'the Commentator' on Aristotle.
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