Averroes’ Middle Commentary on Aristotle’s Rhetoric

The first English-language translation of a crucial medieval Arabic commentary on Aristotle’s Rhetoric , with context on its contribution to intellectual history.   Abū al-Walīd Muḥammad ibn Aḥmad ibn Rushd (d. 1198 AD), known as Averroes in the West, wrote one of the most significant medieval Arabic commentaries on Aristotle’s famous treatise, Rhetoric . Averroes worked within a tradition that included the Muslim philosophers Al-Farabi (d. 950) and Avicenna (d. 1037), who together built an