The Differences Between Avicenna and Maimonides

It's not quite clear why Avicenna was not at all received in Hebrew. Texts traveled very easily from the south to the north and vice versa. The reason is rather that the Jewish culture in northern Europe remained Talmud or centric. They had a very flourishing culture of Talmud commentary called the Tothafot. For this reason they were not interested in anything that could come from any other culture either Jewish or non-Jewish. This was a kind of a closed system that did not at all seek for any improvement or input from outside.