Abu'l Walid Muhammad ibn Ahmad ibn Muhammad ibn Rushd was born in 1126 in Cordoba, Spain. He was known as Averroes in the west. He became the most famous Aristotelian in the Islamic world. He studied religious law, Qur’an, hadith, fiqh, astronomy, logic, history, medicine, and mathematics. His habit of study was that he used to read sixteen hours a day even when he was 70. He even used to make notes on each book he read. In 1169 he became qadi or judge at Seville and two years later he became qadi at Cordoba. He remained the qadi of Cordoba for twelve years and naming him as a good jurisprudence, but his job disturbed his studies. He died on December 10, 1198 at the age of 75 in Marrakech, Morocco.
In 1172, Ibn Rushd met Ibn Tufayl.
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