Teaching in Zaragoza
Served as vizier and taught philosophy in Zaragoza, the cultural capital of the northern Iberian Muslim kingdoms. When the city fell to the Christians in 1118, he moved south to Seville and then to North Africa.
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Ibn Bajja lived in Zaragoza and later Fez during the Almoravid period. He was a physician, musician, and the first major Aristotelian philosopher in Islamic Spain. His Governance of the Solitary argues that in an imperfect society the philosopher cannot reform others but must focus on perfecting his own intellect. This solitary path leads to union with the Active Intellect. He influenced both Ibn Tufayl and Ibn Rushd. He died young, reportedly poisoned.
