Scholar · 1126 to 1198
Ibn Rushd (Averroes)
Judge and philosopher of Cordoba whose commentaries on Aristotle shaped European thought for centuries. He also wrote Bidayat al-Mujtahid, a major comparison of the schools of Islamic law.
At a glance
- Lived
- 1126 to 1198
- Role
- Scholar
- Era
- The Crusades and Salahuddin
- Chapter
- 4. Al-Andalus and the Subcontinent
Ibn Rushd's world
1190: The Crusades and Salahuddin
The Seljuk win at Manzikert in 1071 opened Anatolia to the Turks, and Byzantium asked Europe for help. The First Crusade took Jerusalem in 1099. Zengi, his son Nur al-Din and then Salahuddin rebuilt Muslim unity, and Salahuddin won back Jerusalem in October 1187, three months after Hattin.
People of the same era
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