Abū-Bakr Muhammad ibn Yahya ibn al-Sāyigh, known as Ibn Bājjah, was an Andalusian-Arab Muslim philosopher, poet and physician who was known in the West using his Latinized name, Avempace. He was born in Saragossa in what is today Spain and died in Fez in 1138. His thoughts had a clear effect on Ibn Rushd and Albertus Magnus. Most of his writings and book were not completed (or well organized) because of his early death. Wikipedia
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Arabian philosopher, physician, astronomer, mathematician, and poet, b. at Saragossa towards the end of the eleventh century; d. at Fez, 1138 www.newadvent.org/cathen/02150a.htm