Known in the Latin West as Avempace, the ill-fated philosopher Ibn Bajja remains somewhat mysterious. It is not known exactly when and where he was born, and there are gaps in his biography. He had an extensive knowledge of medicine and in 1109 became...

IBN BĀJJAH (d. AH 533/1139 CE), known in Arabic as Abū Bakr Muḥammad ibn Yaḥyā ibn al-Ṣāʾigh and in Latin as Avempace, was the founder of Islamic metaphysics in Andalusia. Ibn Bājjah was...

Ibn BĀjja(D. 533 Ah/1138 Ce) Abū-Bakr Muḥammad ibn Yaḥyā ibn al-Sāyigh ibn Bājja, the Islamic philosopher, was known to the medieval Scholastics as Avempace. He was born in Saragossa at the end of the...

Ibn B 312 London: Routledge, 1996. Contains a useful...

c. 1095-c. 1138 Arab philosopher, also called Avempace, who defended Johannes Philoponus's critique of Aristotle's ideas concerning motion. Aristotle had asserted that a physical body will remain in motion only as long as force is...

Abū-Bakr Muhammad ibn Yahya ibn al-Sāyigh (Arabic أبو بكر محمد بن يحيى بن الصايغ), known as Ibn Bājjah (Arabic:ابن باجة), was an Andalusian-Arab Muslim polymath:[1] an astronomer, logician, musician, philosopher,...

Edited by LAWRENCE I. CONRAD. Islamic Philosophy, Theology and Science, Texts and Studies, vol. 24. Leiden: E. J. BRILL, 1996. Pp. 305. HF1 150, $97. This book is the result of an interdisciplinary symposium that Lawrence I. Conrad organized in 1987 under...

IT DOES NOT MATTER whether we like the history of science or not. If we were to understand the continuity of medical science progress we must study the science of the ancient times, the Middle Ages, and the Renaissance because they are not exclusive...