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Thomas Aquinas

This reconstruction covers the readable fraction of Thomas Aquinas's formation -- attested reading and writing only, not the whole of a life.

Thomas Aquinas and Maqasid al-Falasifa

Thomas Aquinas's attested relationship to Maqasid al-Falasifa.

Thomas Aquinas is attested as having read this work by Al-Ghazali.

Evidence ledger

  • Aquinas's early engagement with Avicennan metaphysical vocabulary in the Sentences commentary is informed in places by the Latin Logica et Philosophia Algazelis, a summary of Avicennan philosophy attributed to al-Ghazali that circulated in the Toledo-school translation.