66 | CHAPTER 3First Millennium cultural traditions: Prophetic, scriptural, and exegetical phases
GREEK PHILOSOPHy
(ARISTOTELIANISM) CHRISTIANITy JUDAISM
942 Death of Saadia Gaon,
rabbi and philosopher.
948 Death of Fārābī, heir of Al-
exandrian philosophical com-
mentary tradition.
955 Death of Ishāq al-Isrāʾīlī,
philosopher.c. 1000–1037 Ibn Sīnā moves
Arabic philosophy into a new
synthesis.
c. 1001 Ibn Sīnā, Philosophy for
ʿArūdī.
1046 Death of Elias bar
Shenaya, Syro-Arabic chroni-
cler dependent on Eusebius
and Tabarī.