
HoP 125 - Reasoned Belief - Saadia Gaon
History of Philosophy Without Any Gaps
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Introduction
In the Islamic medieval world, conditions were good for interfaith discourse and debate. Muslims were happy for Jews and Christians to live peacefully in a vast swath of territory dominated by Islam. In due course we'll see how Christian medieval thinkers writing in Latin drew extensively on Muslim and Jewish authors. As we'll be seeing, these two near contemporaries had a lot in common despite their different faiths.
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