Averroes (; April 14, 1126 – December 10, 1198) is the
Latinized form of
Ibn Rushd ,
full name , a
medieval Andalusian polymath. He wrote on
logic,
Aristotelian and
Islamic philosophy,
theology, the
Maliki school of
Islamic jurisprudence,
psychology,
political and
Andalusian classical music theory,
geography,
mathematics, and the
mediæval sciences of
medicine,
astronomy,
physics, and
celestial mechanics. Averroes was born in
Córdoba,
Al Andalus (present-day
Spain), and died at
Marrakesh in present-day
Morocco. His body was interred in his family tomb at Córdoba. The 13th-century philosophical movement based on Averroes's work is called
Averroism.