[158] Renan, Averroès, pp. 160–62. [↑]
[159] Ueberweg, i, 416; Steiner, p. 6; Renan, Averroès, p. 162 sq. [↑]
[160] Ueberweg, i, 460; Renan, pp. 258, 275. [↑]
[161] Renan, Averroès, p. 169, and references. [↑]
[163] Id. p. 5. Cp. the Avertissement, p. iii. [↑]
[164] Renan, Averroès, pp. 31–36. Renan surmises that the popular hostility to the philosophers, which was very marked, was largely due to the element of the conquered Christians, who were noted for their neglect of astronomy and natural science. [↑]