Andalusian Islamic philosopher, jurist, and physician whose extensive commentaries on Aristotle became the standard texts for Aristotle in medieval European universities, earning him the title The Commentator.
Defended the harmony of philosophy and religion against al-Ghazali in The Incoherence of the Incoherence; argued that the universe is eternal and the active intellect is a single separated substance shared by all humans (monopsychism) — a doctrine condemned by the Church but influential on Latin Averroism.
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