A History of Agriculture in India v2.c53.s7.13

v2.c53.s7.13

In the Moslem Spain, it was between A.D. 1058 and 1269 that a galaxy of men of genius flourished, e.g. Al-Bakri and Idrisi, the geographers, and Ibn Zuhr (Avenzoar), the physician, Avempace, Averroes (Ibnrushd) and Ibn Tufayl, the philosophers, Ibn’ Arabi of Murcia, the mystic, Maimonides, the Jewish savant, and Ibn Jubayr, the traveller. Averroes (A.D. 1126-1198) taught at Cordoba, and among his students were many Christians. He made a sharp division between religious and scientific truth, and thus liberated science from the dogmas of Christianity and Islam. Averroes and Averroism dominated the scientific thought of Europe for four hundred years.