Ibn Rushd from a painting in Muslim Spain

 

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Ibn Rushd (Averroes) Kitab Al-Hayawan (Book of Animals) (1160)
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Taken from: The Jewish Quarterly Review 1910

He fell in disgrace by Caliph al-Mansur (1) when he wrote in his "History of Animals", "I saw a quadruped of this species (the giraffe) in the house of the Berbers . (He had seen the giraffe at the court of al-Mansur)

(1) Abu Jaʿfar ʿAbd Allah ibn Muḥammad al-Manṣur usually known simply as by his laqab Al-Manṣur was the second Abbasid caliph, reigning from 754 AD to 775 AD succeeding his brother al-Saffah.