Avempace

Abū Bakr Muhammad ibn Yahya ibn as- Sā'igh (Arabic أبو بكر محمد بن يحيى بن الصائغ, DMG Abū Bakr Muḥammad b. Yahya b. Aṣ -sa ʾ IG, known as Ibn Bāddscha / ابن باجة / Ibn Bāǧǧa, Latinized: Avempace; * to 1095 in Zaragoza; † around 1138 in Fes, Morocco), the earliest philosopher was among the Spanish Arabs and Andalusian -Muslim polymath in the areas of: Islamic astronomy, logic in Islamic philosophy, Arabic music, early Islamic philosophy, Physics in medieval Islam, Islamic psychology, Arabic poetry, and science. He was the first Aristotelians of Islamic Spain.

He worked as a vizier of the Almoravid governor of Zaragoza Abu Bakr ibn Ibrahim Ibn Tifilwit. He wrote for this also Lobgedichte. Later he was vizier of Yusuf ibn Tashfin for about twenty years. He lived in Seville, Granada and as a doctor in Morocco.

As a philosopher, he had written in addition to commentaries on the works of Aristotle, some works, a book on the management of the lonely, Tadbir al - mutawahhid what is on the steps of the elevation of the soul of their instinctive behavior to the acquired intellect. His writings have been mostly lost.