ABSTRACT
Born in Córdoba to a family of prominent judges, Ibn Rushd studied fiqh and natural sciences with the scholars of his time. He wrote on various topics, including theology, medicine, astronomy, physics, psychology, mathematics, Islamic law, and linguistics. He is known today chiefly as a pioneer of rationalist philosophy, which was influential also in Renaissance Europe. Now good beliefs include actions as well as disposition; hence, Aristotle made custom one of the six parts, which obviated the need to mention both actions and character in his classification. The misunderstanding of Aristotle’s exposition of the art of Greek drama started with the Arabic translation of the Poetics. The Syriac Matta Ibn Yunus, himself a leading logician and a proponent of Greek philosophy was faced with the terms and concepts of Greek theater (a genre that was unknown to the Arabs or the Syriacs before them).
