Abû Bakr Muhammad Ibn al-Saʾigh Ibn Bâjjah was known as Avempace by the medieval Latin philosophers. We canassume that he was born in Saragossa around 1085, when the city wasthe capital of the Taifa kingdom of the Banu Hud; Yusufal-Mu’tamin Ibn Hud reigned from 1081–1085, and hissuccessor al-Mustaʻin II reigned until the year 1110 when he waskilled in the battle of Valtierra.
In his time, he was seen as a controversial figure, receiving criticism from his peers like Ibn Tufayl.
[IB-coll-alawi] Rasa’il falsafiyya li-Abi Bakr Ibn Bâjja, J. al-‛Alawi (ed.
In Akhbar al-hukama' (Information About Wise People) , al-Qifti mentions that Ibn Bajja died from being poisoned by rivals in the field of medicine.
According to Ibn Khaqan, Avempace “investigated the celestial bodies, the boundaries of the earth climates and rejected the Book of Allah”. 463–477; Miquel Forcada (2005). Abu Bakr Muhammad Ibn Yahyà ibn as-Sa’igh at-Tujibi IbnBâjja was known to the Latin philosophers as Avempace. Avempace joined in poetic competitions with the poet al-Tutili.
Omar Khayyam, Al-Biruni, Ibn Bajjah (Avempace) were among the great men of science and literature.
[IB-coll-genequand] Ibn Bāğğa (Avempace): La conduite de l’isolé et deux autres épitres (Epître de l’adieu ; Conjonction de l’intellect). He was born in Zaragoza around 1080, died in Fez in 1139 CE, and had a chequered life, he lived first in Zaragoza under the rule of the Banu Hud, an Arab family, that was toppled by the Almoravid dynasty. Alfonso the Christian King ofAragon won this battle. In Islamic astronomy, Maimonides wrote the following on the planetary model proposed by Ibn Bajjah:In his commentary on Aristotle's Meteorology, Ibn Bajjah presented his own theory on the Milky Way galaxy.
While Ibn Tufayl was noted for criticizing Ibn Bajjah's work, he also described him as having one of the sharpest minds with one of the soundest reasoning as compared to the others following the first generation of speakers.
He did not believe in the resurrection, affirmed the eternity of time, and that man is a plant; he had fun playing music.
), Beirut-Casablanca: Dar ath-Thaqafa – Dar an-Nashr al-Maghribiyya, 1983.
He was born in Zaragoza in what Abu Bakr Muhammad ibn Yahya ibn al-Sa'ig ibn Bajjah; Saragoça, Taifa de Saragoça, c. 1080 — Fez, 1138), conhecido por ibne Baja, e no Ocidente como Avempace, foi um filósofo do Alandalus, que cultivou também a medicina, a poesia, a física a botânica, a música e a astronomia.
3, Studies Presented to Vladimir Minorsky by His Colleagues and Friends (1952), pp.