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Abu-Bakr Muhammad ibn Yahya ibn al-Sayigh (Arabic ??? ??? ???? ?? ???? ?? ??????), known as Ibn Bajjah (Arabic ??? ?????), was an Andalusian-Muslim polymath[1] an astronomer, logician, musician, philosopher, physician, physicist, psychologist, poet and scientist.[2] He was known in the West by his Latinized name, Avempace. He was born in Zaragoza in what is today Spain and died in Fes, Morocco in 1138. Avempace worked as vizir for Abu Bakr ibn Ibrahim Ibn Tîfilwît, the Almoravid governor of Saragossa. Avempace also wrote poems (panegyrics and 'muwasshahat') for him, and they both enjoyed music and wine. Avempace joined in poetic competitions with the poet al-Tutili. He later worked, for some twenty years, as the vizir of Yahyà ibn Yûsuf Ibn Tashufin, another brother of the Almoravid Sultan Yusuf Ibn Tashufin (d. 1143) in Morocco.[3] His philosophic ideas had a clear effect on Ibn Rushd and Albertus Magnus. Most of his writings and book were not completed (or well organized) because of his early death. He had a vast knowledge of Medicine, Mathematics and Astronomy. His main contribution to Islamic Philosophy is his idea on Soul Phenomenology, but unfortunately not completed. His beloved expressions were Gharib ???? and Mutawahhid ?????, two approved and popular expressions of Islamic Gnostics. Ibn Bajjah was also a renowned poet. In his explanation of the Zajal E.G. Gomes writes "There is some evidence for the belief that it was invented by the famous philosopher and musician known as Avempace. Its chief characteristic being that it is written entirely in the vernacular. ” (Emilio Gracia Gomes in his essay “Moorish Spain")
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