 Although distinctively Jewish philosophy in the Islamic world, written in Arabic, died out after Maimonides, it began to flourish, in Hebrew and using Hebrew translations of Arabic texts  (§1.3.4),  in the Jewish communities of Christian Europe, especially those in Spain, southern France and  Italy.[23]  The central texts were Maimonides’s Guide and Averroes’s commentaries, especially his Middle ones, which Jewish thinkers often used in preference to Aristotle’s own texts and on which some wrote super-commentaries.