Death of Averroes

1198

Ibn Rushd died in Marrakech in his seventies, his rehabilitation barely complete. His bones were later brought back to Cordoba for burial. Christian Europe would soon be translating his Aristotle commentaries into Latin, making him - ironically - far more influential in Paris than in Islamic Spain. Thomas Aquinas, who never read Arabic, would engage with Averroes so deeply that the Commentator became an essential interlocutor in the construction of scholastic philosophy.