# Ibn Rushd

- id: ibn-rushd
- name in original script: ابن رشد
- also known as: Averroes, the Commentator
- dates: 1126–1198
- roles: author, commentator

Judge of Cordoba and Seville, court physician to the Almohads, and the most thorough commentator Aristotle ever had. Latin universities knew him simply as the Commentator. He died in Marrakesh in December 1198, out of favor and far from his books.

## Crossings

- c. 1186: On the Soul into Arabic (commentator) [attested]

## Sources

- Ben Ahmed, Fouad and Pasnau, Robert (2021). Ibn Rushd [Averroes].