← Ibn Rushd⏳ 1126–1198

📘 Who lived at the same time as Ibn Rushd?

Every thinker below, drawn from the AGORA universe with attested dates, genuinely overlapped with Ibn Rushd (1126–1198) — they may never have met, but they breathed the air of the same age.

Contemporaries (overlapping lives) · 2

🀄Zhu Xi1130–1200 · 68 years of overlapSouthern Song Neo-Confucian, Great Synthesizer of the Cheng-Zhu School 📙Maimonides1138–1204 · 60 years of overlapJewish Philosopher, the Great Synthesizer of Medieval Jewish Scholastic Philosophy

Near misses (within 60 years) · 2

🕌Al-Ghazalic. 1058–1111 · died 15 years before Ibn Rushd was bornPersian Philosopher and Theologian, an Important Critic of Rationalist Philosophy Within Islam 📚Thomas Aquinasc. 1225–1274 · born 27 years after Ibn Rushd diedGreat Synthesizer of Scholastic Philosophy, Fusing Aristotelian Philosophy and Christian Theology