ABSTRACT
This quotation from the Exalted Faith of Abraham ibn Daud of Toledo, who died a martyr's death about !I80, aptly illustrates the danger to which the educated Jews and Muslims were exposed in the Middle Ages. To meet this danger, outstanding intellects from the ninth to the fifteenth centuries applied themselves to the task of guiding the perplexed-if I may borrow the title of Maimonides' great work-of their generation, perplexed by the seeming contrast and even contradiction between the teachings of the Bible and the theories of Plato, Aristotle and the Neo-platonists.
