Ibn Rushd exiled to Lucena, 591 AH

نفي ابن رشد إلى ليسانة سنة ٥٩١هـ

1195 CE · 591 AH – 1195 CE · 591 AH

Lucena

The caliph Abū Yūsuf dismissed Ibn Rushd from office and banished him to Lucena in 1195 during the jihad season; after the return to Marrakech he was recalled 1.

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The Crusades, Ayyubids and Mamluks
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al-Andalus & Europe · Maghreb
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The Crusades, Ayyubids and Mamluks

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Lucena

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ابن رشد الحفيد
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Lucena

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Ibn Rushd becomes the caliph's physician (1182)· Ibn Ṭufayl presents Ibn Rushd to the caliph· Tahāfut al-Tahāfut written· Abu Hamid al-Ghazali· Ibn Sina (Avicenna)· Cordoba· Marrakesh· Destiny

Sources

  1. Averroës — Encyclopaedia Britannica
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Ibn Rushd becomes the caliph's physician (1182)

In 1182 Ibn Rushd succeeded Ibn Ṭufayl as physician to the caliph Abū Yaʿqūb Yūsuf, and to his son Abū Yūsuf Yaʿqūb in 1184.