Ibn Rushd ابن رشد
Ibn Rushd is known as the pioneer of diagnosis and treatment of Parkinson’s disease.wrote many books on philosophy, theology, medicine, astronomy, physics, psychology, mathematics, Islamic jurisprudence and law.
Full Name: Abū l-Walīd Muḥammad Ibn ʾAḥmad Ibn Rušd.
Arabic: أبو الوليد محمد ابن احمد ابن رشد
Other Names: Averroes.
Born: c. 1126.
Died: c. 1198.
Origin: Qurṭubah, Al-Andalus, Almoravid Empire.
Famous for: Jurist, philosopher and writer.
Contributions:
He is known as the pioneer of explanation and treatment of Parkinson’s disease.
Opposed the Neoplatonist tendencies of earlier Muslim thinkers supporting Aristotle.
He wrote Bidāyat al-Mujtahid on the differences between Islamic schools of law and the principles that caused their differences.
He proposed a new theory of stroke, described the signs and symptoms of Parkinson’s disease for the first time.
Might have been the first to identify the retina as the part of the eye responsible for sensing light.
Articles
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Averroes
https://plato.stanford.edu/entries/ibn-rushd/
https://www.britannica.com/biography/Averroes
Books attributed to Ibn Rushd:
