Who was Averroes ?

Collection title

Islam

ID

INA00052

Source

INA (FR)

First broadcast date

04/22/2007

Production year

2007

Abstract

Excerpt from the show ‘Lights of Islam: Averroes’: Marc Geoffroy, director of research at CNRS and Jean Baptiste Brenet, lecturer, present the polymorphous political, legal and philosophical work of Averroes, which will circulate observations from Aristotle’s treatises in Latin and Jewish worlds.

Type

video

Production companies

• France 2 - Own production

Broadcaster

FTV - F2

Audiovisual form

Magazine

Personalities

• Averroes

Primary theme

Art, Culture and Knowledge

Secondary themes

• Historical heritages / Judaism
• Historical heritages / Latin and oriental christendom
• Historical heritages / Arab and muslim worlds

Credits / Cast

• Bencheikh, Ghaleb - Speaker

Period of events

• From 1000 to 1500

Map locations

• Spain - South - Andalusia

Original language

French

Media running time

5m50