ابن رشد -Ibn Rushd

Abu Al-Walid Muhammad bin Ahmed bin Rushd, Europeans call him Averroes, better known as Ibn Rushd, the grandson (born April 14, 1126 AD, Cordoba - died December 10, 1198 AD, Marrakesh) is an Arab Muslim Andalusian philosopher, physician, jurist, judge, astronomer and physicist. He grew up in one of the most prestigious families in Andalusia, which was known as the Maliki school of thought. He memorized the Muwatta of Imam Malik and the Diwan of Al-Mutanabbi. He studied jurisprudence according to the Maliki school of thought and the doctrine of the Ash'ari school of thought. The Ibn Rushd of the most important philosophers of Islam. He defended philosophy and corrected earlier scholars and philosophers, such as Ibn Sina and Al-Farabi, who understood some of the theories of Plato and Aristotle. Ibn Tufail presented him to Abu Ya`qub, the caliph of the Almohads, and he appointed him as his physician, then a judge in Cordoba, and he died there (1198 AD).