Quote by Ibn Rushd: “Ignorance leads to fear, fear leads to hatred, and hatred leads to violence.”

What we don't understand, we fear. What we fear, we come to resent. What we resent, we eventually attack. This is a chain that begins with lack of knowledge — which means education and understanding are the most powerful tools against violence.

Ibn Rushd wrote at the Almohad court in Andalusia during a period of religious conservatism that eventually led to his works being burned and himself being exiled. Despite this, his philosophical writings were preserved and transmitted by Jewish and Christian scholars who recognised their importance.

Andalusian philosopher and physician born in 1126 in Córdoba, known in Europe as Averroes, whose commentaries on Aristotle were foundational to the development of medieval European scholasticism. He argued for the compatibility of reason and religious faith in the Islamic tradition.