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Abū l-Walīd Muḥammad bin ʾAḥmad bin Rušd, better known as Ibn Rushd, and in European literature as Averroes (1126 – December 10, 1198)

Abū l-Walīd Muḥammad bin ʾAḥmad bin Rušd, better known as Ibn Rushd, and in European literature as Averroes (1126 – December 10, 1198)

Abū l-Walīd Muḥammad bin ʾAḥmad bin Rušd (Arabic: أبو الوليد محمد بن احمد بن رشد‎), better known as Ibn Rushd (Arabic: ابن رشد‎), and in European literature as Averroes (play /əˈvɛroʊ.iːz/; 1126 – December 10, 1198), was a Muslim polymath; a master of Aristotelian philosophy, Islamic philosophy, Islamic theology, Maliki law and jurisprudence, logic, psychology, politics, Arabic music theory, and the sciences of medicine, astronomy, geography, mathematics, physics and celestial mechanics.

He was born in Córdoba, Al Andalus, modern-day Spain, and died in Marrakesh, Morocco. His school of philosophy is known as Averroism.

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