He was born in Shawwal 450 (December 1058) in Cordoba (Cordoba). The dates 405 (Ibn Ferhûn, II, 250) and 455 (Mahlûf, p. 129) given in some sources must be wrong. He was originally from Saracusta (Saragossa) and belonged to a family that later settled in Cordoba. The science tradition in the family started with his father Ahmed and continued for several generations. Although he is known as Ibn Rushd in relation to one of his great-grandfathers, Ibn Rushd al-Ced (el-Akbar, al-Fakīh) and his grandson, who is more known as a philosopher, Ibn Rushd al-Hafid, to distinguish him from his grandson, who has the same name, tag and nisba. is referred to as.
Ibn Rushd, who started his education in Cordoba, did not leave until the last year of his life.

In accordance with the tradition of the period and the region, Ibn Rushd learned reading, writing, grammar and basic religious knowledge, which was the first step of his education life, from his father. The close friendship of Ibn Rushd, who took lessons from the leading scholars of the period in different fields from law to medicine, from mathematics to philosophy, played an important role in his success in the field of medicine.

11th century AvicennaIslamHe became a brilliant interpreter and representative of Aristotelian philosophy in the eastern part of the world, but a century laterGhazaliin the Islamic world with the criticism ofphilosophywas out of sight.

XII. at the end of the centuryAristotelianismand thus philosophy, but this time free of new Plantonian elements, found its first and last defender in Andalusia, at the western end of the Islamic world.

Ibn Rushd, on the one hand, with the commentaries he wrote on the basic books of Aristotle, on the other hand,religionHe became known for revealing that there is not a conflict between them, but rather a unity, and that these two should be regarded as two separate forms of expression and understanding of a single truth.

The thinker, who was intensely interested in medicine and philosophy as well as religious sciences, was appointed by the famous physician-philosopher Ibn Tufeyl to the ruler Yusuf b. After being introduced to Abdul Mu'min, he continued to work on Aristotle's works with his encouragement and support.

Works:

The corpus (interpretation of Aristotle's works); Tehafüt-üt Tehafüt (The Collapse of Collapse; a defense against Gazzali's Tehafüt-ül-Fâlâsife [The Collapse of the Philosophers]); Kitab-ı Mabaad-ut-Tabia (Book on Metaphysics); Fasl-ül-Makal v'el Keşf an Menahic-ül Edille (Explaining and Explanation of Evidence with Logic).