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Questioning, in fact, is God's commandment in the Quran, says Averroes.
The Jewish Moses Maimonides, like Averroes, was also a great student of medicine, a noted physician and heavily influenced by the Neo-Platonized Aristotelianism that had taken root in Islamic circles. Like Averroes, Maimonides drew a coherent line between classical philosophy and the major monotheistic traditions: "Judaism then is based on a particular philosophy. Maimonides...takes this to mean that before Plato and Aristotle introduced science and philosophy to the Greeks, the patriarchs introduced it to Israel. To someone who asks why we have no explicit record of their philosophy, Maimonides answers that any record of such teaching was destroyed when Israel went into exile and suffered persecution. So despite the appearance of a split between Jerusalem and Athens, Maimonides thinks there is only one tradition worth preserving: that which affirms the truth." Maimonides and Averroes were thus both products of both European and Middle Eastern philosophies and cultures, and without their dialogue with the past, and one another, Aquinas' cornerstone...
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Mirza, Ahmed. "Islam and Judaism." Naqshbandiya Foundation for Islamic Education (NFIE), 2008. http://www.nfie.com/welcome/PPT/nfie_Islam_&_Judaism.ppt[November 26, 2008]
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Works Cited
Hiller, Chad. "Ibn Rushd (Averroes)." The Internet Encyclopedia of Philosophy. 2006
http://www.iep.utm.edu/i/ibnrushd.htm#H3[November 27, 2008]
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Seeskin, Kenneth. "Maimonides," the Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy, 2006
http://plato.stanford.edu/entries/maimonides/[November 27, 2008]
Ahmed Mirza, "Islam and Judaism." Naqshbandiya Foundation for Islamic Education (NFIE), 2008. http://www.nfie.com/welcome/PPT/nfie_Islam_&_Judaism.ppt[November 26, 2008]
http://www.iep.utm.edu/i/ibnrushd.htm#H3[November 27, 2008]
http://plato.stanford.edu/entries/maimonides/[November 27, 2008]
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