Ibn Rushd dismissed and exiled
1196
The Almohad caliph, responding to the pressure of orthodox Islamic scholars, dismissed the philosopher Averroes from his post, ordered his books burned, and banished him to Lucena. He was rehabilitated shortly before his death but the philosophical freedom of al-Andalus had reached its limit. The exile of Averroes marked the effective end of the great tradition of Islamic rationalist philosophy in the western Mediterranean.
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Era
High Middle Ages (1000–1300), one of 1,306 events from that era on Saeculum.