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2. In OTL, the academies lasted considerably longer -- both of them closed during the middle eleventh century -- and by then Muslim Spain had already taken the place of Babylonia as a center of Jewish scholarship. In the Submission Timeline, however, Iberia is still ruled by the Visigoths, who weren't noted for tolerance of Jews. There will be no Maimonides or Solomon ibn Gabirol in this timeline; there may be cabalists, depending on how rabbinic Judaism is influenced by the tenets of Submission.

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