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THE JEWISH TRANSMITTORS – De Lacy O’lery

Posted by on Jan 28, 2013 in Articles, Library | Comments Off on THE JEWISH TRANSMITTORS – De Lacy O’lery

We have already seen that the Jews took a prominent part in bringing a knowledge of philosophical research from Asia to Spain, and Ibn Jabirul (Avencebrol) takes his place in the line of transmission by which Spanish Islam was brought into contact with these studies. This did not end the participation of the Jews in philosophical work, but their subsequent writers do not form part of the regular series of Aristotelian students influencing the Muslim world, but are rather confined to Jewish circles. Yet they are of an importance wider than merely sectarian interests, for it was by means of...

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