Birth: ابن رشد الحفيد

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1. Birth: ابن رشد الحفيد — 1126 CE · c. 520 AH

   Abu al-Walid Muhammad ibn Ahmad ibn Rushd of Cordoba — Averroes to the Latins; he devoted himself to Aristotle, translated him into Arabic and wrote some fifty works including Fasl al-maqal, Tahafut al-tahafut against al-Ghazali, Bidayat al-mujtahid and the Kulliyyat on medicine; the Almohad caliph al-Mansur honoured him, then exiled him to Marrakesh and had some of his books burned, then relented — he died there in 1198 and his body was carried to Cordoba .

2. Ibn Ṭufayl presents Ibn Rushd to the caliph — c. 1169 CE · c. 564 AH†

   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 .

3. Tahāfut al-Tahāfut written — c. 1179 CE · c. 575 AH†

   In 1179–80 Ibn Rushd composed his three connected treatises in defence of philosophy: Faṣl al-Maqāl, Kashf al-Manāhij, and Tahāfut al-Tahāfut answering al-Ghazali .

4. Ibn Rushd becomes the caliph's physician (1182) — 1182 CE · 578 AH†

   In 1182 Ibn Rushd succeeded Ibn Ṭufayl as physician to the caliph Abū Yaʿqūb Yūsuf, and to his son Abū Yūsuf Yaʿqūb in 1184 .

5. Ibn Rushd exiled to Lucena, 591 AH — 1195 CE · 591 AH

   The caliph Abū Yūsuf dismissed Ibn Rushd from office and banished him to Lucena in 1195 during the jihad season; after the return to Marrakech he was recalled .

6. Death: ابن رشد الحفيد — 1198 CE · c. 595 AH

   Abu al-Walid Muhammad ibn Ahmad ibn Rushd of Cordoba — Averroes to the Latins; he devoted himself to Aristotle, translated him into Arabic and wrote some fifty works including Fasl al-maqal, Tahafut al-tahafut against al-Ghazali, Bidayat al-mujtahid and the Kulliyyat on medicine; the Almohad caliph al-Mansur honoured him, then exiled him to Marrakesh and had some of his books burned, then relented — he died there in 1198 and his body was carried to Cordoba .