Period
Judaeo-Arabic
c. 900 – 1204 CE
Jewish philosophy in the Islamic world, written mostly in Arabic, from Saadia Gaon in Baghdad to Maimonides in Cairo, in dialogue with kalam theology and Greek philosophy.
From the tenth century, Jewish thinkers living under Islamic rule wrote philosophy in Arabic, often in Hebrew characters. Saadia Gaon’s defence of reason drew on the Mu’tazili theologians; in al-Andalus Solomon ibn Gabirol wrote a Neoplatonist dialogue and Judah Halevi a polemic against the philosophers. The period culminates in Maimonides, whose Guide of the Perplexed absorbed the Aristotelianism of the Islamic philosophers while stressing the limits of human knowledge.
- Traditions
- Jewish
Philosophers
- Saadia Gaon882–942 CE
- Solomon ibn Gabirolc. 1021 – c. 1057
- Judah Halevic. 1075 – 1141
- Maimonides1138–1204
Sources
- Sarah Pessin, Saadya [Saadiah], Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy
- Sarah Pessin, Solomon Ibn Gabirol [Avicebron], Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy
- Ehud Krinis, Judah Halevi, Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy
- Kenneth Seeskin, Maimonides, Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy