Ibn Bajjah

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Ibn Bajjah, also known in the West as Avempace, was an influential 12th-century Andalusian philosopher, physician, and scientist whose works helped shape early Islamic and European philosophical thought.

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Ibn Bājjah 1

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instanceOf Andalusian philosopher
Islamic philosopher
astronomer
music theorist
philosopher
physician
polymath
scientist
vizier
birthDate c. 1085
birthPlace Al-Andalus
Taifa of Zaragoza
Zaragoza
citizenship Taifa of Zaragoza
contributedTo early Islamic philosophy
medieval European philosophy
deathDate 1138
deathPlace Almoravid Empire
linked to: Almoravid dynasty

Fes
linked to: Fez

Morocco
era Islamic Golden Age
Medieval philosophy
field epistemology
natural philosophy
psychology
hasLatinName Avempace
hasName Abū Bakr Muḥammad ibn Yaḥyā ibn al-Ṣāʾigh
Ibn Bajjah
Ibn Bājjah
linked to: Ibn Bajjah
influenced Ibn Rushd
linked to: Averroes

Latin scholasticism
Maimonides
influencedBy Al-Farabi
Aristotle
Ibn Sina
linked to: Avicenna
knownFor commentaries on Aristotle
influence on Averroism
theory of the solitary philosopher
language Arabic
mainInterest astronomy
ethics
logic
medicine
metaphysics
music
philosophy
political philosophy
notableWork Commentary on Aristotle’s Meteorology
Commentary on Aristotle’s Physics
Governance of the Solitary
Risālat al-wadāʿ
Tadbīr al-mutawaḥḥid
occupation court physician
vizier in Zaragoza
philosophicalSchool Aristotelianism
Peripatetic philosophy
linked to: Peripatetic school
region Al-Andalus
Islamic Spain
religion Islam

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Averroes influencedBy Ibn Bājja
linked to: Ibn Bajjah
Ibn Bajjah hasName Ibn Bajjah
Ibn Bajjah hasName Ibn Bājjah
linked to: Ibn Bajjah