Isaac Israeli ben Solomon | |
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יצחק בן שלמה הישראלי | |
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Died | c. 932 Kairouan, Abbasid Caliphate (now Tunisia) |
Era | Medieval philosophy |
Region | Jewish philosophy |
School | Neoplatonism Correspondence theory of truth[1] (according to Aquinas) |
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Isaac Israeli ben Solomon (Hebrew: יצחק בן שלמה הישראלי Yitzhak ben Shlomo ha-Yisraeli; Arabic: أبو يعقوب إسحاق بن سليمان الإسرائيلي Abu Ya'qub Ishaq ibn Suleiman al-Isra'ili; c. 832 – c. 932), also known as Isaac Israeli the Elder and Isaac Judaeus, was a Jewish physician and philosopher. He was one of the foremost Jewish academics living in the Arab world of his time, and is regarded as the father of medieval Jewish Neoplatonism.[2] His works, all written in Arabic and subsequently translated into Hebrew, Latin, and Spanish, entered the medical curriculum of European universities in the early 13th century and remained popular throughout the rest of the Middle Ages.[3]