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Please note that the content of this book primarily consists of articles available from Wikipedia or other free sources online. Pages: 34. Chapters: 1126 births, 1126 by country, 1126 deaths, 1126 establishments, 1126 in Europe, Conflicts in 1126, Averroes, HM Treasury, William IX, Duke of Aquitaine, Rot an der Rot Abbey, Urraca of Leon and Castile, List of state leaders in 1126, Vikramaditya VI, Roggenburg Abbey, Joseph ben Judah of Ceuta, Gao Qiu, Cai Jing, Tong Guan, wi tos awa of Poland, Adelheid of Wolfratshausen, Abu Madyan, Fan Chengda, Bertrand of Comminges, Raoul III of Tosny, Pons of Melgueil, Ptolemy I of Tusculum, Battle of Marj es-Suffar, Henry IX, Duke of Bavaria, Anvari, Robert Peche, Eynion de Tilston, Taira no Tokiko, Nonnenwerth, Al-Tutili, Sibylla of Burgundy, Ekkehard of Aura, Ermengarde, Countess of Maine, Battle of Chlumec, Suben Abbey, Theoderich van Are, Raymond of Barbastro, Cecilia of Normandy, Raoul IV de Conches, Mael Isa Ua Coinne, 1126 in Ireland. Excerpt: (Arabic: ), better known just as Ibn Rushd (Arabic: ), and in European literature as Averroes (; 1126 - December 10, 1198), was an Andalusian Muslim polymath; a master of Aristotelian philosophy, Islamic philosophy, Islamic theology, Maliki law and jurisprudence, logic, psychology, politics, Arabic music theory, and the sciences of medicine, astronomy, geography, mathematics, physics and celestial mechanics. He was born in Cordoba, Al Andalus, modern-day Spain, and died in Marrakech, modern-day Morocco. His school of philosophy is known as Averroism. Ibn Rushd was a defender of Aristotelian philosophy against claims from Islamic theologians such as Ghazali who feared that such teachings would become an affront to the teachings of Islam. Averroes' name is also seen as Averroes, Averroes or Averrhoes, indicating that the "o" and the "e" form separate syllables. Averroes is a Latinisation of a Hebrew transcription of the Arab name Ibn Rushd. According to Ernest Renan, he was als...
