Qur'anScience
Qur'anScience
In the West he is known as “Averroes”, the philosopher. But in Córdoba he was the chief judge, a Maliki jurist and court physician — author of Bidayat al-Mujtahid, still studied today. The fourteenth book of Tracing the Scholars of Islam tells the story of Ibn Rushd, including his dialogue with Imam al-Ghazali, from the Qur’an, authentic Hadith and the recognised books of biography. “Do they not look into the realm of the heavens and the earth?”
“Do they not look into the realm of the heavens and the earth and everything that Allah has created and [think] that perhaps their appointed time has come near? So in what statement hereafter will they believe?”
Anyone who wants to know the early scholars
Parents & heads of families
Students of fiqh, medicine & philosophy
Preachers, teachers & counsellors
The story of Ibn Rushd — 22 chapters with Qur’anic verses, 16 authentic Hadith with linked chains, a timeline, a diagram of teachers and students, a chart of the star Canopus, a chart of his works by field, history notes marked separately, a table of popular stories and their status, a glossary and reflection questions.