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It is the intention of this paper to present some brief remarks on the relationship between al-Farabi’s and Maimonides’ theories of prophecy, and to place within a broad perspective their treatments of the roles of imagination and intellect in revelation.
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© 1986 Martinus Nijhoff Publishers, Dordrecht / Boston / Lancaster
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Macy, J. (1986). Prophecy in al-Farabi and Maimonides: The Imaginative and Rational Faculties. In: Pines, S., Yovel, Y. (eds) Maimonides and Philosophy. Archives Internationales D’Histoire Des Idees / International Archives of the History of Ideas, vol 114. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-009-4486-2_13
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