In twelfth-century Crdoba, a judge and physician spent his life defending a dangerous idea: that you don't have to choose between faith and reason. Ibn Rushd---known in the West as Averroes---argued that rigorous inquiry strengthens genuine belief, that questioning what you value doesn't dishonor it. His commentaries on Aristotle preserved Greek philosophy for Europe and sparked centuries of debate about whether wisdom requires both Athens and Jerusalem, or forces you to pick sides. Eight hundred years later, we're still living in the split he tried to prevent---still being told to choose between what we can measure and what we know in our bones. Maybe his patience is still working on us.
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