  In addition to this language of overflow, Maimonides speaks of the moment of perfected human contact with active intellect in terms of a “conjunction” (ittiṣāl) between the human intellect and active intellect. The notion and language of ittiṣāl in particular can be seen in Maimonides when he speaks, for example, of active intellect as the “divine intellect conjoined (al-muttaṣil) with man” (G 1.1, P 23; for Arabic see Munk 1931, 15). While it might be noted that this language of ittiṣāl can conceptually be linked to a notion of unification at play in Sufi discussions of union-with-God (with its Hebrew correlate, devēqūth, occuring frequently in Jewish Kabbalistic writings), Maimonides' own use of the concept of ittiṣāl (to describe conjunction with the active intellect) is in line with the commonplace technical terminology at play in Arabic textual traditions of [Neoplatonized] Aristotelian epistemology.