Sorry if it is a silly question but I cannot seem to find a simple yes/no answer. Did famous thinkers in late medieval Europe know the real identities of thinkers from the Islamic World such as Averroes (Ibn Rushd) or Avicenna (Ibn Sina)?
It seems like their ideas were popular, and debated, but did say students at Paris University in the 1400s know the two aforementioned thinkers were Muslims? Or from Asia/Africa? Or did they think they were from somewhere else? Thank you
Whilst you are waiting for an answer I can recommend some previous threads: this thread by u/WelfOnTheShelf, this with answers by u/histprofdave and others, and perhaps this by u/voltimand. According to these answers they were at least perceived as non-Christian, being in Dante's Limbo along with Saladin and various ancient pagan thinkers.
One could also note that at least Averroës is depicted as looking stereotypically Middle Eastern in mediaeval European art, with turban and long dark beard (like here, here and at the bottom of the image here). The second one is pretty interesting as it contrasts him with the Phoenician neoplatonist thinker Porphyry, who looks quite European in this depiction
