At a glance
- Roles
- Philosopher · Physician
- Era
- The Crusades, Ayyubids and Mamluks
- Region
- al-Andalus & Europe · Maghreb
- Identifiers
- Wikidata
- Review
- Draft Completeness 2/5 · Help complete it
Life in time
In space
Map: Natural Earth, public domain · places and route from the graph
On screen
- Destiny· Film, 1997 · About · historical drama
Overview
His work
Al-Zirikli says that he devoted himself to the words of Aristotle, translated them into Arabic and added to them, and wrote about fifty books. Among them are Fasl al-Maqal (The Decisive Treatise), and Tahafut al-Tahafut (The Incoherence of the Incoherence), a reply to al-Ghazali; Bidayat al-Mujtahid (The Beginning of the Mujtahid), on jurisprudence; and al-Kulliyyat (Generalities), on medicine. 2
Trial and death
The Almohad caliph al-Mansur honoured him and brought him near. Then his opponents turned the caliph against him, and he exiled him to Marrakesh and some of his books were burned. Later the caliph relented and allowed him to return, and he died in Marrakesh in 595 AH, corresponding to 1198 CE, and his body was taken to Córdoba. 2
The source gives his birth as 1126 CE. These dates come from one source and need an additional source. 2
Connections
- Lived in
- Cordoba
- Died in
- Marrakesh
- Buried in
- Cordoba
- Authored
- Fasl al-Maqal fima Bayna al-Hikma wa-al-Shari'a min al-Ittisal· Tahafut al-Tahafut· Bidayat al-Mujtahid wa-Nihayat al-Muqtasid
- Critic of
- Abu Hamid al-Ghazali
- Participated in
- Ibn Ṭufayl presents Ibn Rushd to the caliph· Ibn Rushd becomes the caliph's physician (1182)· Tahāfut al-Tahāfut written· Ibn Rushd exiled to Lucena, 591 AH
- Influenced by
- Ibn Sina (Avicenna)
- Mentioned in
- The Reconstruction of Religious Thought in Islam
- Subject of
- Destiny
People and things also explored
Cordoba· Ibn Qatral· Ibn Rushd becomes the caliph's physician (1182)· Tahāfut al-Tahāfut written· Abu Hamid al-Ghazali· Marrakesh· Destiny· The Reconstruction of Religious Thought in Islam
Sources
- al-Alam — al-Zirikli , p. 849
- al-Alam — al-Zirikli , p.849
- From Greek Philosophy to Modern Philosophy — Sulayman Sulayman Khamis
- Averroës — Encyclopaedia Britannica
Cite this page
islam.museum contributors. “ابن رشد الحفيد”. islam.museum, https://islam.museum/en/person/ibn-rushd/. CC BY-SA 4.0. Last updated 2026-10-28.