 Just as a very particular way of doing philosophy grew up in twelfth-century Paris, so at much the same time Islamic Spain was marked out by its own distinctive style of thinking, which for the most part placed great emphasis on the importance of science and philosophy in the Greek  tradition.[16]  The earliest important thinker was the Jew,  Solomon ibn Gabirol  (1021/2(?)–1057/8(?)), heavily influenced by Platonism, but insistent that the universe was produced at God’s will, not by necessary emanation, and that matter is present at every level of creation, even in intellectual creatures.