How did Ibn Rushd influence Maimonides?
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The two greatest thinkers in Moorish Spain were the Muslim Ibn Rushd and the Jew Moses Maimonides. In his film “Out of Córdoba”, Jacob Bender traces the life stories of both men as a counterbalance to the clash of civilisations theory.
Jacob Bender’s “Out of Córdoba” is a film about the greatest unknown chapter in European history: Islamic Spain. For almost 800 years, vast swathes of the Iberian Peninsular were under Muslim control, the Spanish capital Madrid was founded in 1085 by the Islamic emir Muhammad I. Al-Andalus, as Moorish Spain was known, is to this day viewed as an era marked by tolerance, with Jews, Muslims and Christians living for the most part peacefully together under the banner of convivencia – coexistence. Córdoba was the capital in a region that represented a leading cultural and economic centre – of both the Mediterranean and the Islamic world as a whole. The Catholic Reconquista, or ‘reconquest’ completed in 1492 put an end to this period of tolerance: Jews and Muslims were driven out, traces of Islamic heritage destroyed