SECTS, COMMUNITIES, AND NONBIBLICAL WRITERS AND WRITINGS

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Abahu, Rabbi, 349

Alexander of Aphrodisias, 66, 67, 285, 289, 320, 463, 465, 473; “On Governance,” 462; “The Principles of the All,” 254

Amaleq, 566, 614, 615

Amoraim, 18

Amorite, 542, 543, 544, 549

Andalusia(ns), 177; men of, 92; people in, 268

Apollonius: “Conic Sections,” 210

Aqiba, Rabbi, 68, 353

Arab(s), 336, 337, 616, 617

Aristotle, 112, 182, 217, 235, 240, 241, 246–48, 254, 256–59, 262, 265, 265, 283–89, 291, 293, 296, 298, 302, 304–6, 310, 311, 313–20, 322, 323, 325, 326, 328, 330, 346, 349, 384, 432, 449, 450, 454, 463–66, 468, 469, 471–73, 494, 520, 521; chief of the philosophers, 29; “De Caelo,” 267, 290, 307; “Metaphysics,” 132, 168, 239, 308; “Meteorologica,” 353; “Nicomachean Ethics,” 371, 476, 572, 601, 608; “Physics” (“Akroasis”), 196, 239, 283, 290, 312, 438, 515; “Rhetoric,” 608; “Topica,” 292

Ashʿariyya (Ashʿarite), 177, 202, 203, 466, 468–70, 494

Ashi, Rabbi, 19

Babylon(ian), 337, 338, 384, 405, 406, 411, 486, 516, 519, 520

Banū Shākir: “Book of Ingenious Devices,” 198

Bar Qappara, 573

Baraithoth, 18

Bereshith Rabbah (see Midrash) Canaan(ites), 541, 553, 587

Chaldeans, 519, 520, 541

Chasdeans, 520, 541

Christians, 111, 177, 178, 225

Copts, 590

Degrees of the Sphere and the Forms Appearing in Each of These Degrees, Book of, 521

Edom(ite), 339, 340, 343, 411, 437, 569, 570, 613, 615

Egypt(ians), 343, 345, 360, 390, 397, 499, 530, 531, 541, 552, 561, 570–72, 581, 582, 585, 590

Elazar, Rabbi, 75

Eliezer ben Hyrqanos the Great, Rabbi, 61, 330, 331, 349, 366; “Chapters of Rabbi Eliezer,” 149, 174, 330, 332

Elisha Aer, 69

Epicurus, 195, 285, 360, 464

Euclid, 198

al-Fārābī, Abū Nar Muhammad, 207, 292, 309, 476; glosses on the “Akroasis,” 309; “On the Intellect,” 299; “The Changing Beings,” 222

Franks, 598

Galen, 196, 281, 292; “On the Natural Faculties,” 214; “On the Utilities of the Parts of the Body,” 444, 525

Gaonim, 176, 471

Gemara: Shabbath, 490; Yoma, 575

Greeks (Greece), 177, 178, 342, 381

Haggadah, 19

aninah, Rabbi, 140, 141, 142, 148

Hebrew(s), 336, 339, 362, 424, 435, 438, 632, 633

Hermes, 521

Hindus, 515

iyya the Great, Rabbi, 389

Ibn ʿAdī, 177, 178

Ibn Afla, Jābir, 268

Ibn Bājja, Abū Bakr Ibn al-āʾigh, 221, 268, 269, 323, 326; commentary on the “Akroasis,” 515

Ibn Jana, 93

Ibn Qurra, Thābit, 325, 457

Ibn Washiyya, 518 (see also “Nabatean Agriculture”)

India(ns), 516, 519, 581

Isaac, Rabbi, 426

Islam, 176–78

Islamic internalists, 328

Jeremiah ben Elazar, Rabbi, 345, 346

Jonathan, Rabbi, 345

Jonathan ben Uziel, 32, 59, 64, 85, 91, 276, 338, 408, 419, 421, 423, 424

Joshua, Rabbi, 366

Josiah, Rabbi, 549

Judah ha-Nasi ben Rabbi Simon, Rabbi, 18, 349, 350, 425, 434

Magians, 595

Maimonides: “Book of Correspondence,” 9; “Book of Prophecy,” 9; Commentary on the Mishnah, 9, 89, 161, 347, 362, 367; Introduction to the Commentary on the Mishnah, 563; Commentary on Aboth, 434, 538, 598, 629, 630; Introduction to Commentary on Aboth, 537; “Mishneh Torah,” 10, 48, 89, 367, 403, 499, 512, 517, 554, 571 (cf. also 535–608 passim); “Book of Knowledge,” 174; our compilations, 391; our great compilation, 83, 163, 273, 362, 517, 544; our juridical compilations, 176; our legal compilations, 6; the great legal compilation, 10

Medes, 343, 411

Meir, Rabbi, 425, 440

Mekhilta (see Midrash)

Men of the Great Synagogue, 140–42

Midrash(im), 9, 10, 11, 19, 33, 102, 174, 176, 254, 260, 272, 333, 356, 364, 390, 479, 572, 573, 578, 597; Bereshith Rabbah, 103, 108, 172, 260, 263, 264, 270, 273, 331, 345, 350, 370, 440, 508, 636; Mekhilta, 364; Midrash azith, 365; Midrash Qoheleth, 263, 264, 345; Midrash Rabbi Tanuma, 272; Siphra, 533, 595; Siphre, 149, 587

Mishnah, 18, 161, 425, 470, 489; Middoth, 594; Tamid, 594

Moslems, 178, 179

Muʿtazila (Muʿtazilite), 176, 177, 201, 203, 204, 460, 468, 469–71, 494

“Nabatean Agriculture, The,” 515, 518, 522, 542, 547, 548, 549, 559

Negroes, 618

Onqelos the Proselyte, 23, 49, 50, 51, 57, 58, 60, 61, 85, 86, 106, 107, 108, 160, 331, 354, 365, 366, 387, 424, 575, 581

Pagans, 360, 554

Peripatetics, 235

Persia(ns), 342, 343, 411

Philoponus, John, 177

Philosopher(s), 139, 163, 170, 196, 207, 208, 211, 220, 221. 223, 224, 227, 228, 231, 246, 252, 257, 259, 260, 267, 269, 270, 282, 285, 292, 302, 314, 330, 361, 374, 449, 457, 458, 460, 461, 463, 476, 478, 479, 481, 485, 505, 608, 627, 634, 636; books of the, 19, 177, 179, 239, 269

Plato, 43, 263, 283, 284, 290, 328, 330, 331, 476;

“Timaeus,” 283

Ptolemy, 268, 274, 326; “Almagest,” 322, 324, 325

Pythagoras, 267

al-Qabīī: “Epistle Concerning the Distances,” 325

Qaraites, 176

Rab, 19

Raba, 19, 64

Rabbanites, 10, 573

al-Rāzī, 441

al-ābi, Isāq, 521

Sabians, 153, 172, 322, 381, 514–16, 518, 520–23, 540, 542, 548, 576, 581, 585, 594, 595, 599, 612, 615

al-Sarb, book, 521

Simon ben Laqish, Rabbi, 489

Siphra (see Midrash)

Siphre (see Midrash)

Sophists, 214

Syria(ns), 177, 221, 515, 548, 552, 582

Talmud, 19, 78, 102, 149, 152, 176, 364;

Hagigah, 172, 427; Pesaim, 415

Tarphon, Rabbi, 151

Themistius, 179

Tumtum, book of, 521, 544, 561, 582

Turks, 515, 618

al-Ustumākhus, book of, 520

Yoanan, Rabbi, 78, 264