Paulus Orosius, a Spanish presbyter from Braga, is best known for his History Against the Pagans in seven books written in 416/7 AD. He lived between the fourth and fifth centuries AD.
Entering the Church at an early age, he was ordained and set off for Africa. He arrived in Hippo in 414, where he addressed a Consultation to Augustine about the Errors of the Priscillianists and Origenists, setting out the dangers that Priscillianism posed to Spanish Christianity.
He became a friend of St. Augustine, who sent him to Palestine in the hopes of gaining the support of St. Jerome against the Pelagians. The council of Diaspolis in Palestine however sided with the latter. That led Orosius to write a piece in defense of his own views. By 417, he had return to the west.
His Latin History Against the Pagans, unlike the work of the Greek ecclesiastical historians of the period viewed history through the perspective of Augustine’s City of God and attacked the pagans on Augustine’s grounds.
Orosius strongly believed in the necessary of the monarchic from a government for the welfare of mankind.
Paulus Orosius
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Ibnu Bajjah
Ibnu Bajjah or Avempace or Abu Bakr Muhammad ibn Yahya al-Saigh was born in Saragossa in 500 AH/1099 AD. He was highly influential in medicine, philosophy and mathematics.
He was a celebrated Spanish Muslim scholar, commentator of Aristotle, scientist, poet and musician.
He was a creative and iconoclastic thicker, an instigator of the ‘Andalusia revolt’, who operated an observatory on his own and made original contribution to physical theory, with his account of projectile motion.
His thoughts greatly influenced Averroes (Ibnu Rushd).
He practiced as a physician in his native city but after the fall of Saragossa in 513 AH to the Christians he resided in Seville and Xatina.
Later he went to Fez in Morocco where he was made at the Almoravid court. Ibnu Bajjah’s most celebrated work is Tadbir al-Mutawahhid, Regime of the Solitary which he left unfinished.
He passed away in 533 AH/1139 AD.
Ibnu Bajjah
He was a celebrated Spanish Muslim scholar, commentator of Aristotle, scientist, poet and musician.
He was a creative and iconoclastic thicker, an instigator of the ‘Andalusia revolt’, who operated an observatory on his own and made original contribution to physical theory, with his account of projectile motion.
His thoughts greatly influenced Averroes (Ibnu Rushd).
He practiced as a physician in his native city but after the fall of Saragossa in 513 AH to the Christians he resided in Seville and Xatina.
Later he went to Fez in Morocco where he was made at the Almoravid court. Ibnu Bajjah’s most celebrated work is Tadbir al-Mutawahhid, Regime of the Solitary which he left unfinished.
He passed away in 533 AH/1139 AD.
Ibnu Bajjah
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