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Date of Death:
10 December 1198
Abdul Walid Muhammad Ibn Ahmad Ibn Rushd , better known just as Ibn Rushd , and in European literature as Averroes , was an Andalusian philosopher, physician, and polymath: a master of philosophy, theology, Maliki law and jurisprudence, astronomy, geography, mathematics, medicine, physics, psychology and science. He was born in Córdoba, modern day Spain, and died in Marrakech, modern day Morocco. His school of philosophy is known as Averroism. He has been described as the founding father of secular thought in Western Europe.
His name is also seen as Averroës, Averroès or Averrhoës, indicating that the o and the e form separate syllables.