The Liberal Ideas of Ibn Rushd (with Mustafa Aykol)

03/06/2021 29 min
The Liberal Ideas of Ibn Rushd (with Mustafa Aykol)

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Mustafa Akyol joins Portraits of Liberty to discuss the life and thought of the famous Andalusian polymath Ibn Rushd. Born during what is called the Golden Age of Islam, Ibn Rushd was one of the earliest thinkers in the Middle East to articulate what would later become the core values of liberalism. His influence stretched into the western world, where his translations of Aristotle caused an intellectual renaissance. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.