Ibn Bajja c. 1085 – 1138

Abu Bakr Muhammad Ibn Yahya Ibn Bajja, known to the Latin West as Avempace, was an Andalusian polymath, the first major Islamic philosopher of the Iberian peninsula after Ibn Hazm and the principal predecessor of Ibn Tufayl and Averroes. He served as a vizier in several Almoravid courts and wrote on logic, music, astronomy, physics, and ethics. His Regimen of the Solitary developed an account of the philosopher who must live apart from a corrupt city in pursuit of intellectual perfection, a theme that influenced his successors. Much of his work was left unfinished at his early death in Fez.