Averroes displays clear, analytical thinking in his commentaries on the Greek philosophers.

Averroes’ guiding principle, reflected in all his writings, is that philosophy and religion must agree.

He regards philosophers as prophets who teach the same principles as religious prophets but in a higher, more abstract form.

As orthodox Muslims consider these views heretical, the Almohad caliph Mansur banishes him from the court in 1195.

Recalled from exile in 1198, he dies soon after in Marrakech, at the age of seventy-two.