 The traces of the ‘influence’ of al-Kindi (796-866) on Medieval Judaic thought appear to have been rather scanty, apart from some quotations and passages surely taken from his works, and from one of them in particular; in any case they appeared to have been substantially limited to the first period of it, when the influence of Neoplatonism (or, better, of the first Arab-Islamic Aristotelianism, where a key role was played by Plotinus and Proclus as interpreters of metaphysics) shows to have been stronger. As a matter of fact, rather than speaking of al-Kindi’s influence on Judaic thought, one should speak of a sort of Jewish “Kindism” through the influence of some of al-Kindi’s Arabic (in particular Christian Arabic) followers (see below, 11).