ABSTRACT
With the occasional exception (such as Leibniz, who annotated Maimonides’ Guide of the Perplexed), Christian philosophers from the seventeenth century onwards have neglected medieval Islamic and Jewish philosophy. By contrast, from the late twelfth to the sixteenth century, Islamic and Jewish thinkers were among the most important influences on scholastic philosophers and theologians. The first two sections below will survey the extent of this influence by showing which works were translated and how much they were read; later sections will consider some individual examples of influence in a little more detail.
