Maimonides in His World. Portrait of a Mediterranean Thinker

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Maimonides in His World portrait of a mediterranean thinker Sarah Stroumsa princeton university press princeton and oxford ...

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In loving memory of my parents Zvi Avraham Wallach Zoshka Wallach née Ludmer ...

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CONTENTS Preface xi Acknowledgments xvii Abbreviations xix Chapter One Maimonides and Mediterranean Culture 1 Mediterranean Cult ...

x CONTENTS Chapter Five A Critical Mind: Maimonides as Scientist 125 Medicine and Science 125 “Ravings”: Maimonides’ Concept of ...

PREFACE The present book is dedicated to one major medieval thinker, Moses Maimonides (d. 1204), and to the examination of his t ...

xii PREFACE to one par ticular subfi eld of Maimonidean scholarship: philosophy, or law (halacha), or science. On each of these ...

PREFACE xiii acknowledged. As already stated succinctly by Shlomo Pines, “in the sphere of philosophical literature... Jewish th ...

xiv PREFACE by Christians was relatively marginal, they nevertheless represent a cru- cial piece in the puzzle of the developmen ...

PREFACE xv studies for the study of Maimonides in par ticular and of Jewish and Islamic thought in general. The present book gre ...

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AC KNOW LEDGMENTS The decision to write the present book was made in 2006, when I was enjoying a sabbatical year as a Fellow at ...

xviii AC KNOW LEDGMENTS I wish to thank Fred Appel, the Se nior Editor in Religion and Anthro- pology at Princeton University Pr ...

ABBREVIATIONS Works of Maimonides Commentary on the Aphorisms of Hippocrates,= Moshe ben Maimon: Commentary on the Aphorisms of ...