Ab? l-Wal?d Mu?ammad bin ?A?mad bin Ru?d (Arabic: ??? ?????? ???? ?? ???? ?? ????), better known as Ibn Rushd (Arabic: ??? ????), and in European literature as Averroes (play /??v?ro?. i?z/; 1126  December 10, 1198), was a Muslim polymath; a master of Aristotelian philosophy, Islamic philosophy, Islamic theology, Maliki law and jurisprudence, logic, psychology, politics, Arabic music theory, and the sciences of medicine, astronomy, geography, mathematics, physics and celestial mechanics. He was born in C?rdoba, Al Andalus, modern-day Spain, and died in Marrakesh, Morocco. His school of philosophy is known as Averroism.