Born in Cordoba
Born into a family of distinguished jurists in Cordoba. His grandfather had been the chief judge of the city. He grew up surrounded by law, theology, and the intellectual life of al-Andalus at its peak.
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Ibn Rushd was born into a family of judges in Cordoba and served as chief judge himself. Ibn Tufayl introduced him to the Almohad caliph, who commissioned him to write commentaries on Aristotle. He produced three levels of commentary on nearly every Aristotelian work, earning the title The Commentator in medieval Europe. His Incoherence of the Incoherence defended philosophy against Al-Ghazali's attacks. He argued for the compatibility of reason and faith. He was briefly exiled for his views, then restored. His work shaped Latin Scholasticism more than any other Islamic thinker.
