Maimonides in His World. Portrait of a Mediterranean Thinker
18 CHAPTER ONE The last few years of Maimonides’ life were troubled by an ongoing controversy with the Gaon of Baghdad, Samuel b ...
MAIMONIDES AND MEDITERRANEAN CULTURE 19 The real rising force, however, was not Egypt. Although Maimonides contributed signifi c ...
20 CHAPTER ONE suggested by his contemporary Muslim scholar Abd al- Latif al- Baghdadi.^65 Quite rightly, Maimonides did not be ...
MAIMONIDES AND MEDITERRANEAN CULTURE 21 diffi culty in reading Hebrew, and pleaded with Maimonides to translate his legal code i ...
22 CHAPTER ONE or three grains can be found in the whole of Babylon and Persia. In all the cities of Yemen and in all the Arab c ...
MAIMONIDES AND MEDITERRANEAN CULTURE 23 doubt, the leading force behind this astounding versatility. At the same time, we must n ...
Chapter Two The Theological Context of Maimonides’ Thought Islamic Theology Scrupulous footnoting, which we nowadays regard as e ...
THEOLOGICAL CONTEXT 25 therefore be alert to the possibility that Maimonides’ words refl ect, whether by way of ac ceptance or b ...
26 CHAPTER TWO al-dalal, and although Maimonides probably neither intended nor ex- pected his Yemenite readers to recognize the ...
THEOLOGICAL CONTEXT 27 Jewish thinkers who preceded him to be phi losophers. No Jewish phi los- opher is mentioned by name in th ...
28 CHAPTER TWO least should not refute it.”^14 In other words, instead of directing their thoughts toward the quest for truth, t ...
THEOLOGICAL CONTEXT 29 on the content of the curriculum, whereas Maimonides’ text is more phe- nomenological and more outspokenl ...
30 CHAPTER TWO IbnAdi could not have infl uenced the emergence of Muslim kalam. It seems that this error of Maimonides’ resulte ...
THEOLOGICAL CONTEXT 31 was phenomenological. For Maimonides, Yahya ibn Adi, like John Philoponus before him, was part of the tr ...
32 CHAPTER TWO (which they then passed on to the Jews). In Maimonides’ view, philoso- phy, twice harnessed in this manner to rel ...
THEOLOGICAL CONTEXT 33 ingly recognizes the part that the Christian theological tradition played in the translation of scientifi ...
34 CHAPTER TWO with Christians and were being exposed to their theology, their Jewish contemporaries were waiting patiently on t ...
THEOLOGICAL CONTEXT 35 To the extent that he adopted Mutazilite rather than Asharite views, this was most probably not a resul ...
36 CHAPTER TWO In addition to presenting a simplifi ed schema of the history of kalam, Maimonides also attempts to describe its ...
THEOLOGICAL CONTEXT 37 losopher who displayed a complex, ambivalent attitude to the kalam. He had arrived to study with Maimonid ...
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