Averroes ibn rushd biography examples

Abū al-Walīd Muḥammad ibn Aḥmad ibn Rushd (1126-1198), known to the West as Averroes or as “the Commentator” for his 38 commentaries on Aristotle, was also a prominent jurist, qāḍī, theologian, and physician who lived in various cities in Andalusia (now Spain) and the Maghreb (now Morocco).

He was born in Córdoba, where both his father and grandfather had served as qāḍī, where he received a medical and legal education, apparently receiving his legal license (ijāza) at the age of 16. He probably first encountered Aristotelian science and philosophy in his medical studies.

By the age of 30 he served as advisor to the caliph ʿAbd al-Muʾmin at Marrakesh, where he appears to have also conducted astronomical observations. In Marrakesh, he met Ibn Ṭufayl, author of the philosophical novel Hayy ibn Yaqzan, who introduced him to ʿAbd al-Muʾmin’s successor, Prince Abū Yaʿqūb Yūsuf, who in turn apparently commissioned Averroes to write commentaries on Aristotle.

Later, when Abū Yaʿqūb