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Our interest in this chapter will be in the engagement of mediaeval Islamic thinkers — al-Farabi (c. 870–950), Avicenna (980–1037), al-Ghazali (1058–1111) and Averroes (1126–98) — and the Jewish thinker Maimonides (1135–1204) — with Neoplatonic logic and philosophical principles. Here too we will see how the error of the culture of finite thought coexists with the culture or education carried in such errors.
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Tubbs, N. (2009). Mediaeval Islamic and Judaic Philosophy. In: History of Western Philosophy. Palgrave Macmillan, London. https://doi.org/10.1057/9780230244849_5
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