Editing Ramon Llull (section)

====Influence of Islam and early works====

It has been pointed out that the ''Art''{{'}}s combinatorial mechanics bear a resemblance to [[zairja]], a device used by medieval Arab astrologers.<ref name="link">Link, David (2010). "Scrambling T-R-U-T-H: Rotating Letters as a Material Form of Thought", in: ''Variantology 4. On Deep Time Relations of Arts, Sciences and Technologies in the Arabic–Islamic World'', eds. Siegfried Zielinski and Eckhard Fürlus (Cologne: König, 2010): 215–266</ref>{{sfn|Lohr|1984|pp=64–65}} The Art's reliance on divine attributes also has a certain similarity to the contemplation of the [[Names of God in Islam|ninety-nine Names of God]] in the Muslim tradition.{{sfn|Lohr|1984|p=63}} Llull's familiarity with the Islamic intellectual tradition is evidenced by the fact that his first work (1271-2) was a compendium of [[Al-Ghazali]]'s logic.<ref>{{cite book |last1=Lohr |first1=Charles |title=Raimundus Lullus' Compendium Logicae Algazelis. Quellen, Lehre und Stellung in der Geschichte der Logik |date=1967 |publisher=Thesis, Freiburg im Breisgau |pages=93–130}}</ref>