Avempace

Avempace (Ibn Badja), Arabian philosopher, was born in Spain towards the close of the 11th century, most likely at Saragossa, lived as a physician in Morocco at the court of the Almoravides, and died at Fez in 1138. His principal work, known to us only through a Jewish writer of the 14th century, was the Conduct of the Solitary, a system of rules whereby mankind might rise to higher things.