The impact of Ibn Rushd's Philosophical Thought on the Jewish Ibn Meymun in Medieval Andalusia

Ibn Roshd is one of the Muslim philosophers who had great influence on western scholars, especially the Jewish through his translating and explaining of Aristotle's works and the relationship between reason and religion. Ibn Meymun is a Jewish thinker who was influenced by Ibn Rushd. In Judaism the preliminary steps on the relationship between reason and religion were of special interest to Philo of Alexandria. Later on, anti – Hellenistic thoughts and non- intellectual attempts to prove religious matters had developed. In twelfth century, the Jewish thought was deeply influenced by main trends of Islamic thought and Aristotelian and neo–Platonian schools, which was manifested in Musa b. Meymun's thought.Using a library survey method, the present paper investigates Ibn Rushd and Ibn Meymun's views about the interaction between reason and religion and the influence of Ibn Rushd's thoughts on Jewish philosophical thought and on Ibn Meymun's thought in particular.