Question

Match each achievement to the correct scholar from the Islamic golden age. Avicenna Averroes Maimonides.

Answer 1

1. Avicenna

Avicenna was a Persian polymath who was one of the most significant physicians, atronomers, thinkers, and writers of the Islamic Golden Age. He wrote the medical materpiece, "The Canon of Medicine," which influenced European medicine. It become the standard in medical universities and was used until 1650.

2. Averroes

Ibn Rushd, also known as Averroes, was a Muslim Andalusian philosopher and thinker. He thought about many subjects, such as philosophy, theology, medicine, physics, law, and linguistics. In his philosophical work, he wrote about the ideas of Greek philosophers Plato and Aristotle. He attempted to restore the original thinkings of Aristotle.

3. Maimonides

Moses ben Maimod, commonly known as Maimonides, was a Sephatic Jewish philosopher. He specialized in the study of the Jewish Torah and was one of the most influencial Torah scholars of the Middle Ages.

Answer 2

Avicenna was a Persian polymath who is regarded as one of the most significant physicians, astronomers, thinkers and writers of the Islamic Golden Age. He has been described as the father of early modern medicine. Of the 450 works he is known to have written, around 240 have survived, including 150 on philosophy and 40 on medicine.  His most famous works are The Book of Healing, a philosophical and scientific encyclopaedia, and The Canon of Medicine, a medical encyclopaedia which became a standard medical text at many medieval universities and remained in use as late as 1650.

Ibn Rushd, often Latinized as Averroes, was a Muslim Andalusian philosopher and thinker who wrote about many subjects, including philosophy, theology, medicine, astronomy, physics, Islamic jurisprudence and law, and linguistics. His philosophical works include numerous commentaries on Aristotle, for which he was known in the West as The Commentator.

Moses ben Maimon, commonly known as Maimonides, and also referred to by the acronym Rambam, was a medieval Sephardic Jewish philosopher who became one of the most prolific and influential Torah scholars of the Middle Ages. In his time, he was also a preeminent astronomer and physician.[