Abu l-Walid Muhammad ibn Ahmad Ibn Rushd was a Muslim Andalusian polymath and jurist….

Abu l-Walid Muhammad ibn Ahmad Ibn Rushd was a Muslim Andalusian polymath and jurist.

He wrote about many subjects, including philosophy, theology, medicine, astronomy, physics, psychology, mathematics, Islamic jurisprudence and law, and linguistics.

The author of more than 100 books and treatises, his philosophical works include numerous commentaries on Aristotle, for which he was known in the Western world as The Commentator and Father of Rationalism.

Ibn Rushd also served as a chief judge and court physician for the Almohad Caliphate.

In Islamic jurisprudence, he wrote the “Bidayat al-Mujtahid” on the differences between Islamic schools of law and the principles that caused their differences.

In medicine, he proposed a new theory of stroke, described the signs and symptoms of Parkinson’s disease for the first time, and might have been the first to identify the retina as the part of the eye responsible for sensing light.

His medical book “Al-Kulliyat fi al-Tibb”, translated into Latin and known as the Colliget, became a textbook in Europe for centuries.
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