Abu’l-ala-al-Ma’aari

From Philosopedia

Abu Abd’allah Muhammad ibn Massara al Jabali (881—921)

An Arabian pantheist, Abu lived at Córdova, Spain, and studied the works of Empedocles and other Greek philosophers. Accused of impiety, he left Spain and traveled throughout the East, returned to Spain and collected disciples whom he led to skepticism. He was the most eminent predecessor of Ibn Rushd, or Averroës. His works were publicly burned at Seville.

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