 Beḥinat ha-Dat is Del Medigo’s last and best known work, which received more scholarly attention than all of his other works combined. Unlike his Italian works, Beḥinat ha-Dat was composed in Hebrew at the request of Del Medigo’s pupil, Shaul Ashkenazi, following Del Medigo’s return to Crete. The overarching theme of the work is an attempt to legitimise philosophical practice within the Jewish religious realm. This attempt brings to mind Maimonides’ Guide of the Perplexed, though the most immediate source—which Del Medigo does not acknowledge for reasons which we will discuss below—is Averroes’ Decisive Treatise. The relation between Beḥinat ha-Dat and Averroes’ Decisive Treatise was discussed by various authors throughout the generations (see Ivry 1983: 251; Montada 2013: 158). And most recently by Giovanni Licata, who has convincingly illustrated Del Medigo’s reliance on the Decisive Treatise by citing parallel passages from the two works (see Licata 2013a: 129–86).