The Maimonidesans and the Averuists

For Nachmanides, Maimonides might well fill a need among philosophy enthusiasts in Spain. But it wasn't the place of Jews in Provence to attack that local practice. The Maimonidesans followed an idea pioneered in an Islamic context by a Farabi and later embraced by a Varui's. Aristotelian philosophy establishes with proof what religion can express only in persuasive symbols. On this view, it is not philosophy, but religion and the religious law that are local.