Spoof philosophies, real quotations, cod science and bits of arcane text accompany numerous commentaries on the works.
His commentaries on the works of Aristotle, which had been translated into Arabic in Spain, had great influence on Jewish and Christian thinkers, including Thomas Aquinas, Siger of Brabant, and Boethius of Dacia.
There he produced a wealth of theological and philosophical literature, including commentaries, on the works of Thomas Aquinas (unusual for an Eastern theologian); polemical tracts supporting Aristotelian thought; and many other compositions in liturgy, ethics, and poetry.
Influenced by the works of Aristotle and the 12th-century Islāmic philosopher Averroës, Levi wrote Sefer ha-hekkesh ha-yashar (1319; Latin Liber syllogismi recti; "Book of Proper Analogy"), criticizing several arguments of Aristotle; he also wrote commentaries on the works of both philosophers.
His father, a nonpracticing Muslim, changed his "fine old Delhi" name to Rushdie in homage to Ibn Rushd, the 12th-century Spanish-Arab polymath who wrote commentaries on the works of Aristotle and made a forceful case, 800 years before the uproar over "The Satanic Verses," for rationalism over Islamic literalism.
The 6th century witnesses at once the culmination and the demise of a long tradition of writing philosophical commentaries on the works of Plato and especially Aristotle.
Byzantium in the 6th century witnessed at once a last flourishing and a dramatic decline of the tradition of composing philosophical commentaries on the works of Plato and Aristotle, a tradition which began in earnest in the 2nd century CE.
In philosophy the translators from Greek into Arabic focused on the works of Aristotle and although some distinctly Neoplatonic texts were translated into Arabic most notably the pseudo-Aristotelian Theology, a compilation from Plotinus' Enneads the most significant Neoplatonic contributions reached the Arabs by way of commentaries on the works of the Stagirite (Wisnovsky 2003, 15).
He wrote theological and grammatical tracts, and commentaries on the works of other philosophers and theologians.
