Who Was Alive

Averroes

Arab Andalusian Muslim writer and philosopher

Born 14 April 1126 · died 10 December 1198, aged 72

Who was alive at the same time as Averroes?

  1. Omar Khayyám
  2. Peter Abelard
  3. Bernard of Clairvaux
  4. Hildegard of Bingen
  5. Abu Abdullah Muhammad al-Idrisi al-Qurtubi al-Hasani as-Sabti
  6. Frederick Barbarossa
  7. Averroes
  8. Zhu Xi
  9. Moshe ben Maimon
  10. Saladin
  11. Nizami Ganjavi
  12. Richard I of England
  13. Innocent III
  14. Genghis Khan
  15. John, King of England
  16. Shota Rustaveli
  17. Francis of Assisi
  18. Frederick II, Holy Roman Emperor
Drag across the timeline to see who was alive in any year and the age each person reached that year. Faded ends mark uncertain dates.

When Averroes was born, Peter Abelard was 46 or 47 and Frederick Barbarossa was 3.

When Averroes died, Genghis Khan was 36, Zhu Xi was 68, Richard I of England was 41, Shota Rustaveli was 25 or 26 and John, King of England was 31.

Born during Averroes’s lifetime: Genghis Khan, Saladin, Francis of Assisi, Zhu Xi, Richard I of England, Moshe ben Maimon, Shota Rustaveli and Innocent III.

Not quite contemporaries: Rumi was born 9 years after Averroes died, Al-Ghazali died 15 years before Averroes was born and Saadi was born 10 years after Averroes died.

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