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Abraham bar Ḥiyya 3n Middle Commentary on Aristotle’s De Abraham ibn Daud 12, 12n, 17, 18n, 111 Anima 124n The Exalted Faith 12n, 17, 18 commentaries by 5, 6, 95, 96, 124, 157, Abraham ibn Ezra 1n, 3n, 12, 122n 158, 159 Abraham ibn Ḥasdai 2, 123n, 152 Hebrew translations of 1, 3n, 95n, 99, translator of: 115n76, 115n78, 115n79 The Balance of Action 27, 123n, 152 Avicenna 4, 7, 17n, 131, 133, 134–147, 152, Albertus Magnus 8 154–156, 158, 159, 161–163 Alexander of Aphrodisias 3, 4, 14 Canon of Medicine 7, 9, 19 Almohad 2 Compendium on the Soul 9 Arabic 15n, 21, 22, 127, 130–133 De Anima 8n, 12n, 21, 97, 98, 111n culture 111, 130 Logic 5 dictionaries 99, 100 Metaphysics 5, 6, 7, 157, 158, 161 knowledge of 3, 95, 96, 100, 110, 156 Physics 5, 7, 20, 157 manuscripts/sources 4, 6, 97–99, 105, Pointers and Reminders 4, 9, 157 106, 111, 113, 155n37, 155n38 The Book of Knowledge 9 philosophy 2, 157 The Compilation / Philosophy of ʿArūḍī scientific texts 109 161 terms 102–104, 107, 108n, 112, 114, 115, The Cure 4, 7–9, 21, 96–99, 106, 126, 132, 118–121, 124, 126n, 150, 151n, 152, 153 133, 147n, 157, 158 see also Judeo-Arabic; translation The Easterners 9 Aristotle 1, 3, 4n, 8n27, 8n30, 10n, 13, 15, 16, The Provenance and Destination 161 157, 159 The Salvation 5n, 7–9, 21, 96–99, Isagoge 4 126, 132, 133, 135n, 136, 147n, 151, 158, Logic 15 161 Metaphysics 161–163 The Small Treatise on Destination 9 Meteorology 8n The State of the Human Soul 9, 161 On the Soul 11n, 100 philosophical discussions 1, 6, 120, 123, Physics 1, 4 125, 157, 160 Poetics 1 psychology 132 Prior Analytics 4 terminology 127 Rhetoric 1 see also soul, Avicenna’s concept of; Topics 4 translation, of Avicenna system of logic 4 Avignon 2n teaching 14 see also philosophy, Aristotelian; physics, Baḥya ibn Paquda 3n, 4, 107, 108 Aristotelian; soul, Aristotelian concept Blau, Joshua 22 of Bonjues see Judah ben Solomon Nathan Arles 1 Avempace 6, 13, 14 Caspari, Carl P. 22 Avendauth see Abraham ibn Daud choice, rational 101, 119 Averroes 3, 4, 6, 9, 10n, 13–17, 131, 152n Middle Commentary on Aristotle’s Poetics David ben Joshua 12 5 divine Middle Commentary on Aristotle’s Rhetoric foreknowledge 6 4n, 5 intelligence 120 index 221

power 11 Ḥasdai Crescas 12, 17, 18n, 159 spirit 11 The Light of the Lord 17 Hasse, Dag Nikolaus 8n Efros, Israel 22 Hebrew 97, 107, 117, 121, 150, 151, 152 Egypt 12 Arabicized 113, 158 En Bongodas see Judah ben Solomon Nathan manuscripts 8, 20 entelechy 10, 101, 106, 119 readers 2, 7, 8 Europe 7, 124 scientific texts 18, 22, 117, 131, 132, 151, 159 faculty terminology 96, 101, 107, 109, 112, 118, 120, estimative 10, 152, 153, 158 127, 147, 151, 153 imaginative 10, 119, 150, 152, 153 translation movement 1, 2, 95, 130, 157, of growth 6 158 rational 125 translation 2, 3, 4, 15n, 98, 99, 112, 127, theoretical 11 157 Fakhr al-Dīn al-Rāzī 4, 5 translators 7, 109, 110, 111, 151 Falaquera 2, 5n, 8, 12, 17, 22, 106, 110n, 111, see also translation, Arabic into Hebrew; 117, 120n, 131–149, 154–156 methods of translation Book of the Soul 22, 106, 108n, 132, 133, Hillel ben Samuel 2 136, 137, 139, 152 Ḥunayn ibn Isḥāq 108 Guide to the Guide 120n, 131n, 132, 133, 134, 136n Ibn Bājjah see Avempace Opinions of the Philosophers 131, 150, Ibn Daud see Abraham ibn Daud 152 Ibn Gabirol see Solomon ibn Gabirol The Cure, paraphrased 8 Ibn Janāḥ 108n The Salvation, paraphrased 8, 22 Ibn Kaspi 14 use of terms 150–153 Ibn Rushd see Averroes al-Fārābī 1, 3, 4, 6n, 13, 162 Ibn Sīnā see Avicenna On the Purpose of the Metaphysics intellect 120 162 active 9, 11, 102, 120, 121 First Mover 15, 162 Avicenna’s concept of 11, 103 Freudenthal, Gad 14, 15 holy 123 incorporeality of 9 Gersonides 1, 3, 14, 109n, 122, 123, 126 material 11 Commentary on Averroes’s Epitome of passive 11 the Physics 14n practical 119, 123 Commentary on Proverbs 122, 123n intellectuals, Jewish 2, 3n, 7, 14, 15, 159 al-Ghazālī 1, 2, 4, 5, 10, 14–18, 22, 99, 111n, intelligible 10, 11, 103, 120, 121 118, 123n, 125, 152, 153n, 159, 162 intuition 11, 102, 103, 120, 121, 129, 151, Intentions of the Philosophers 2, 5, 15, 158 16n, 17, 159 Italy 2, 12 Goichon, Amélie Marie 22 Ivry, Alfred, L. 9n, 17n, 110 Goshen-Gottstein, Moshe 22, 24, 113 Gutas, Dimitri 9, 12, 108n, 159, 162 Jacob Anatoli 2 Jacob ben Makhir 2 ḥads see intuition John Blund 8 Harvey, Steven 6n, 13, 16n, 17, 18n, 111n, Joseph ben Saul Kimḥi 2, 16n 120n Joseph ibn Ṣadiq 12 Harvey, (Warren) Zev 13n, 17, 18n Joseph ibn Waqār of Toledo 14n