Ibn Ṭufayl presents Ibn Rushd to the caliph

ابن طفيل يقدم ابن رشد إلى الخليفة

c. 1169 CE · c. 564 AH† – c. 1169 CE · c. 564 AH† †

† Hijri date derived by computation from the Gregorian/Julian date; it may differ from the transmitted date by a day or two.

Between 1153 and 1169 Ibn Ṭufayl presented Ibn Rushd to the Almohad caliph Abū Yaʿqūb Yūsuf, who took to him and charged him with interpreting Aristotle 1.

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The Crusades, Ayyubids and Mamluks
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al-Andalus & Europe · Maghreb
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116011701180 c.
The Buyid, Fatimid and Seljuk Era · The Crusades, Ayyubids and Mamluks

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  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.