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The Jewish communities of Occitania, known by medieval Jews as "Provence," were involved in the repeated outbreaks of public controversy over the integration of Greco-Islamic philosophy into Jewish intellectual culture and, due to its halakhic implications, into Jewish practice …

Moses Narboni’s fourteenth-century Hebrew commentary on Maimonides’ Guide of the Perplexed altered the landscape of Maimonidean thought and represented the growing movement of Jewish Averroism in Christian Europe. Averroes’ ideas shape broad swaths of Narboni’s commentary: they …