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HoP 184 - Robert Wisnovsky on Commentary Culture

History of Philosophy Without Any Gaps

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The Late Antique Commentary Tradition in the Muslim Tradition

Philosophy in the context of commentaries. You mentioned there are these late antique commentators usually on Aristotle. It seems to me that there are two obvious potential sources. One is precisely these philosophical commentaries which were then imitated in the Baghdad Peri Pateg School by Farabi and others, also by Averois in Spain. But then there's also commentaries on the Quran, so Tafsiyya.

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