Walid Muhammad Ibn Ahmad. AN Andalusian physician, polymath, a master of Islamic law, astronomy, medicine, physics, and science, Averroes was born in Cordoba, and died in Marrakech (1126-1198 CE). Famous by his work in medicine – a medical encyclopaedia called Al-Kulliyat fi ‘l-Attibb (Generalities in medicine) – known in its Latin translation as Colliget. He also wrote a commentary on The Canon of Medicine (Al-Qanun fi ‘t-Attibb) of Ibn Sina. In astronomy, Ibn Rushd rejected the eccentric deferents and the Ptolemaic model and instead argued for a strictly concentric model of the universe. Jacob Anatoli translated several of the works of Ibn Rushd from Arabic into Hebrew in the 1200s. Many of them were later translated from Hebrew into Latin by Jacob Mantino and Abraham de Balmes. Other works were translated directly from Arabic into Latin by Michael Scot. Many of his works in logic and metaphysics have been permanently lost. The fullest version of his works is in Latin, and forms part of the multi-volume Juntine edition of Aristotle published in Venice (1562
