ABSTRACT
Johann Georg Walch, born in Meiningen in 1693, was a German Lutheran theologian, a historian of logic and an eclectic philosopher. After studying at Leipzig and Jena, Walch married the only daughter of his Pietist teacher Johann Franz Buddeus, considered to be the most accomplished German theologian of his time, an ordinarius professor. According to Walch, Jewish scholars used Arabic primary and secondary sources to produce commentaries on Aristotelian philosophy that suggest an interdisciplinary learning process among Arab Muslims and Jews. Walch concludes that the Jews similarly corrupted true Aristotelian logic, as both religious groups were incapable of disentangling the highest truths of reason from the lowest judgments of their scriptural dogmatism. Initially, among the Arab Muslims there were Christians skilled in Greek philosophy. Over time, the obstacles that separated Muslim Arabs from this philosophy and the Greek language were overcome and they immersed themselves gladly in this literature.
