History of Philosophy Without Any Gaps

The super-commentator Gersonides and other Jews digest the ideas of Averroes.

Maimonides’ works provoke a bitter dispute among Jews in France and Spain over the relation of philosophy to Judaism.

Maimonides as a "Mediterranean thinker": Peter is joined by Sarah Stroumsa.

Maimonides tries to settle the eternity of the world debate by declaring a draw.

The great Jewish philosopher and legal scholar Maimonides, and the ideas in his Mishneh Torah and Guide for the Perplexed.

Baḥya Ibn Paquda and Maimonides explore the ethical dimension of the Jewish scriptures and legal tradition.

Abraham Ibn Ezra, Ibn Daud and Maimonides consider the philosophical implications of astrology as science flourishes in the Jewish culture of Andalusia.

Judah Hallevi argues that Judaism has a better claim to belief than philosophy, Christianity, or Islam.

Peter chats with Sarah Pessin about the Neoplatonism of Jewish philosophers such as Isaac Israeli, Ibn Gabirol, and Maimonides.

Neoplatonism returns in Ibn Gabriol, who controversially holds that everything apart from God has both matter and form.

The historian Ibn Khaldūn applies the methods of philosophy to understand the rise and fall of political regimes.

Sufism, the mystical tradition of Islam, collides with philosophy in the work of Ibn ʿArabī.

Averroes scholar Richard C. Taylor joins Peter to talk about Averroes' views on the relation between Islam and philosophy.

Averroes defends the rather surprising notion that all of mankind shares a single intellect.

A special 150th double interview episode on the transmission of philosophy from Arabic into Latin.

An introduction to “the Commentator” Averroes, and his defense of philosophy in the Decisive Treatise.

Intellect and alienation in Ibn Bājja and Ibn Ṭufayl, author of the philosophical desert island castaway tale “Ḥayy Ibn Yaqẓān.”

The development of Islamic law and jurisprudence (fiqh), and the many-sided output of the legal theorist Ibn Ḥazm.

The flowering of philosophy among Muslims and Jews in al-Andalus (Muslim-controlled Spain and Portugal).

Why did al-Ghazālī judge "the philosophers" to be apostates? Peter finds out from Frank Griffel.