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Today's episode, Back to Basics,

a Varrois on reason and religion.

In the unlikely event that you are invited to an audience before a king or queen,

here are some guidelines to follow.

Do not make casual jokes about regicide

or remark that the monarch's crown would go really well with what you yourself are wearing.

Do avoid direct eye contact and compare the monarch favorably to other outstanding royal figures.

Alexander the Great is always a favorite.

Do not snap your fingers and say, that reminds me I need to buy postage stamps.

Do display your comprehensive knowledge of the works of Aristotle, and feel free to give favorable

mention to this podcast, which sadly has yet to receive patronage from any of the Crown Heads of Europe.

Actually, that bit of advice about Aristotle may or may not be applicable depending

on the taste of the king or queen in question. But it was just the trick if you wanted to impress

Abu Yaacub Yousuf, who served as the Amuahad ruler of Muslim

Spain for about 20 years starting in 1163.

Or so was the experience of a scholar who appeared before him introduced to the Amir by the

subject of the last episode, Ibn Tufel.

Ibn Tufel was the Amir's doctor, and thus in a position to arrange an interview for his friend, a fellow philosopher and the subject of this episode, Abul Waleid Imrust.

Imrustrust, or Averu is, as he was known in Latin and is usually called in English,

hailed from Cordoba and came from a family of legal scholars of the Maliki tradition, which as we saw was the dominant

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