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] Ibn al-Imam showers encomiums on his beloved teacher in the follow- (View the image of this page) ( It so appears that after Abu Nasr al-Fara bi there was no mah who could write and speak on those sciences in a more elevated manner than Ibn Bajjah; for if you establish a comparison between his writings and those of Ibn Sina arid al-Ghazzali, the two authors who inost promoted the study of that science in the East after al-Farabi, you will find the balance inclining rather on the side of Ibn Bajjah, especially if you bear in mind the clearness and beauty of his expression and his aptitude in penetrating the writings of Aristotle.
The present writer has so far published the following works of Ibn Bajjah: r .
HIS PHILOSOPHICAL VIEWS Ibn Bajjah, though skilled both in the theory and practice of the mathe• matical sciences, particularly astronomy and Music, an· adept in medicine, and devoted to speculative studies in logic, natural philosophy and meta• physics, according to De Boer.
According to Ibn Bajjah, matter can exist without form.
In the writings of Ibn Bajjah form has been used for the following few meanings: soul, figure, power, meaning, concept.
Those forms which are related to the Active Intellect are called by Ibn Bajjah general spiritual forms, and those forms which are in the common sense are called particular spiritual forms.
Sense-perception, for example, precedes the Imaginative soul, the faculty of sensation is preceded by the faculty of nutrition, and the rational faculty comes last of all.