Bidspirit auction | Kitzurei Ibn Rashd al Shema

Kitzurei Ibn Rashd al Shema Tiv'i by Aristotllus. Riva di Trento, 1559. Only Edition. - Riva di Trento, Jacob Marcaria, 1560. Essays on philosophy. The work was written in Greek and abbreviated in Arabic by the famous medieval Arab philosopher Abu Al - Walid Muhammad Ibn Rushd, translated into Hebrew by Rabbi Moshe Ibn Tibbon in 1240, and printed here for the first time. This is Ibn Rashd's first book printed in full in Hebrew. (Only some of his books were printed in Sha'ar Shamayim by Gershon Ben Shlomo, Venice, 1547). With a foreword by Dr. Ya'akov Markriah. Very rare book. Ginzei Yisrael - Osef Mehlman 1359. 47 Leaves. 15.2 cm. Ibn Rushd (1126-98, full name in Arabic: أبو الوليد محمد ابن احمد ابن رشد, romanized: Abū l-Walīd Muḥammad Ibn ʾAḥmad Ibn Rušd, often Latinized as Averroes) was an Andalusian polymath and jurist who wrote on many scholarly subjects, including philosophy, theology, medicine, astronomy, physics, psychology, mathematics, Islamic jurisprudence and law, and linguistics. The author of more than 100 books and treatises, his philosophical works include numerous commentaries on Aristotle, for which he was known in the Western world as The Commentator and Father of Rationalism.