Ibn Rushd, Abū Muḥammad - Encyclopaedia of Islam, THREE
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Abū Muḥammad ʿAbdallāh Ibn Rushd (sixth-seventh/twelfth-thirteenth centuries) was one of the sons of the famous philosopher Ibn Rushd (d. 595/1198), known in the West as Averroes. According to the meagre Arabic biographical literature available about him, ʿAbdallāh Ibn Rushd worked as the physician of the Almohad caliph Muḥammad al-Nāṣir (r. 595-610/1199-1213) in Marrakech (Burnett, 281ff.). The report by Giles of Rome (d. 1316 C.E.) that Muḥammad b. Rushd's sons "were with the Emperor Frederick [II]" (Egidius Romanus, Quodlibeta II, quaestio