Averroes, vida y persecución de un filósofo

Abstract

Arabic medieval literature has recourse to many biographical directionaries, but the information they supply mostly conforms to a standardized pattern. They register every individual whose literary production or professional activity was valued and list ancestors, teachers and disciples, the offices served, the works written, and the date and place of death. In this article, using this rather programmatic information, I have been able to generate a picture of the social context of Averroes, which helps explain the dissipation of his influence of Averoes in the Arab word immediately following his death in 1198.