yahuda

Updated: May 19, 2025

We have already seen in the introduction that Bahya was indebted for his ideas to the ascetic and Sufic literature of the Arabs, and Yahuda, who is the authority in this matter of Bahya's sources, has shown recently that among the quotations of the wise men of other nations in Bahya's work are such as are attributed by the Arabs to Jesus and the gospels, to Mohammed and his companions, to the early caliphs, in particular the caliph Ali, to Mohammedan ascetics and Sufis.

Isaac Husik - A History of Mediaeval Jewish Philosophy

And here the recent investigations of Yahuda, the latest authority on this subject and the editor of the Arabic text of Bahya's masterpiece , force upon us the conclusion that Bahya wrote after Gabirol. This leaves very little doubt that Bahya borrowed from Gazali and hence could not have written before the twelfth century.

Isaac Husik - A History of Mediaeval Jewish Philosophy