Averroës — Encyclopaedia Britannica

Averroës — Encyclopaedia Britannica

Britannica biography of Averroës (Ibn Rushd); it gives his birth at Córdoba, the audience with the caliph Abū Yaʿqūb Yūsuf arranged by Ibn Ṭufayl, his succession as the caliph's physician in 1182, the chief qāḍīship of Córdoba, the polemical treatises of 1179–80, the banishment to Lucena in 1195, the recall to Marrakech, and his death there in 1198.