You might as well, he argued, identify astronomy with superstition, because some deluded people believe that an eclipse of the moon is caused by a dragon's making a meal of it.
For the last few years of his life Saadiah was reinstated in the Gaonate at Sura.

The school enjoyed a new lease of fame under the brilliant direction of the author of the great work just described.

After his death the inevitable decay made itself felt.

Under the Moorish caliphs, Spain had become a centre of Arabic science, art, and poetry.

In the tenth century, Cordova attained fame similar to that which Athens and Alexandria had once reached.