Bin Sina

Hasan A. Yahya, Ph.D.

The Jewish philosophical and theological world is closely linked to the Arab intellectual tradition. The writings of Jewish authors were originally written in Arabic. Many later translated into Hebrew and Latin. Beginning with the Arab and Jewish philosophers who lived in an Islamic country, namely, Andalusia (Spain) for a long period, intelligence was trained in Arabic. I study philosophy Muslims, Jews and Christians, for example in Islam that I loved with al-Kindi, Al Ghazali, Al-Farabi and Ibn Sina (Avicenna), Ibn Rush (Averroes), in Judaism, Moses Maimonides and Saadia Gaon, and in Christianity, Aristotle and Thomas Aquinas. Because I think the best condition of the man is to be a philosopher, because the wise men of the world are philosophers. They have addressed all the issues through reason, until proven true. For them, the reasons things are collected from the things around them. In the early years of my studies at university, I loved to study the theories and their application. When philosophy pumped into my mind one day, I was in a group to discuss the relationship between the two R (reason and revelation).

From Aristotle (384-322 BC) at Al-Razi (865-925) and Saadia Gaon, Saadia ben Joseph or (882-942), the Jewish philosopher, who writes in Arabic in the 10th century, Ibn Sina-Avecinna (980-1037) to Ibn Bajjah Avempace (1090-1139), who was the first Muslim philosopher of Spain, which opened the way for both Jewish and Muslim philosophers, namely, Ibn Rushd ( Averroes) 1126-1198, and Maimonides (1138-1204) in logic and mathematics.

On the Christian side, the Latin translation of Jacques Venetian 12th century and particularly those of William of Moerbeke (1215-1285) in Paris proves fundamental to assimilation of Christian philosophy, these translations were later used by Thomas Aquinas (1225-1274)

On the Jewish side, Maimonides in the 12th century, born in Cordoba was educated in philosophy by Arab teachers, he sought to reconcile Aristotleism and Judaism in his "Guide to the perplexed" to help those who are confused conflict between knowledge and the center of the Jewish revelation.

Maimonides comments translated Averroes from Arabic to Hebrew, and later translated into Latin, where it became available for European philosophers.

Gershom Levi Geronides or bin in the 14th century, its "Super Notes" on Averroes was famous, he was an Aristotelian Aristotle over itself, many analysts, his book has become the main source.

The line of Jewish philosophy has continued with Joseph Caspi, Norbon Moses, Judah Messer Leon and Elias Medigo of the 15th century,

Jewish and Muslim philosophers in this period of battles in parallel on the study of philosophy in particular about the two R. Moses Maimonides in his "treatise on logic" has given the debate between the superiority of the logic of grammar, describing the logic of universal grammar and the distinction between the opinions generally accepted religious traditions and universally valid need.

Al-Ghazali (1059-1111) can be regarded as anti-philosophical, but in fact he was not opposed to philosophy by example, but rather because the philosophical approaches of those who critically accepted too easily some Greek philosophical positions. For example, Aristotle's theories about the natural world, saying that God knows universals, and not the details, and supporting the world and the soul are eternal.

Saadia Gaon (882-942), Century 10 Egyptian experts in Jewish law, the Hebrew grammar and Arabic translator and commentator on biblical books, dialectical theology introduced in the medieval Jewish community, but the challenges .