I was rushing past the treasures of the Louvre in Paris, on the way to the “Mona Lisa,” when a painting stopped me in my tracks. Massive and unusually elongated, “The Triumph of St. Thomas Aquinas” ...

Averroes was an Andalusian polymath whose legacy of works has deeply influenced Western thought. Most known for his Aristotelian commentaries, Averroes came to be referred to as ‘The Commentator ...