How to pronounce“averroes”in English

And Averroes is an interesting figure because he's bound up with a kind of narrative that you will often hear about philosophy

like Avicenna and Averroes.

So you wouldn't have people like Avicenna or Averroes, who are primarily inspired by Aristotle.

If you've heard of anyone, you might have heard of Avicenna or Averroes.

Whereas if we take seriously the idea that philosophy and Islamic world is a continuous tradition that does survive the death of Averroes and go on century after century

And it maybe even ends at a very specific-- it actually ends on one day, namely, the day that Averroes has died.

they thought, well, what we need to do is study Avicenna and Averroes.