Averroes
(1126-1198)
Arab-Andalusian Muslim writer and philosopher
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Ibn Rushd (Arabic: ابن رشد; full name in Arabic: أبو الوليد محمد ابن احمد ابن رشد, Abū l-Walīd Muḥammad Ibn ʾAḥmad Ibn Rušd; 14 April 1126 – 11 December 1198), often Latinized as Averroes (English: ), was a Muslim Andalusian polymath and jurist of Berber descent who wrote about many subjects, including philosophy, theology, medicine, astronomy, physics, psychology, mathematics, Islamic jurisprudence and law, and linguistics. The author of more than 100 books and treatises, his philosophical works include numerous commentaries on Aristotle, for which he was known in the western world as The Commentator and Father of Rationalism. Ibn Rushd also served as a chief judge and a court physician for the Almohad Caliphate.
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Abu al-Walid Muḥammad ibn Aḥmad ibn Muḥammad ibn Aḥmad ibn Aḥmad ibn Rošd 1126 Córdoba, Al-Andalus, Almoravid Empire (present-day Spain)
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10 December 1198 (aged 72) Marrakesh, Maghreb, Almohad Caliphate (present-day Morocco)
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