Syriac was the leading language of culture in the Middle East after the Arab conquest and before the emergence of Arabic medical and scientific literature in the ninth century. Some Jewish intellectuals learned Syriac and utilized Syriac medical, scientific, and theological sources in their own works.

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Andreas Lehnertz (October 11, 2022). Lecture by Tamás Visi about “The Reception of Syriac Scientific and Exegetical Texts in Early Medieval Jewish Literature” (hybrid), 12 Oct. 2022. medievalJewishStudiesNow! Retrieved November 10, 2025 from https://doi.org/10.58079/rht9