Maimonides in His World. Portrait of a Mediterranean Thinker
38 CHAPTER TWO need to accommodate its specifi c needs. This awareness accounts for much of the theological content of his work. ...
THEOLOGICAL CONTEXT 39 “And he may not be a min.” In the language of the Sages, minim are Jewish heretics [zanadiqat Yisrael], ...
40 CHAPTER TWO Abraham Ibn Daud and Judah Halevi.^53 Rabbanite authors sometimes use the term min to denote the Karaites. For in ...
THEOLOGICAL CONTEXT 41 with its inbuilt “perplexing contradiction— harmonious daily life, ideo- logical wars.”^58 It has been su ...
42 CHAPTER TWO same time, Maimonides insisted on treating the Karaites as an integral part of the Jewish community. His rule of ...
THEOLOGICAL CONTEXT 43 Jesus the Nazarene, Doeg, Ahitophel, Gehazi, and Elisha-Aher, and those who follow their ways— may the na ...
44 CHAPTER TWO Maimonidean Elisha. Also striking is the absence of the Talmudic formu- lation of the nature of Elisha’s sin: “Ah ...
THEOLOGICAL CONTEXT 45 particular formulations to describe Elisha, Maimonides insinuates that Elisha decided in favor of the bel ...
46 CHAPTER TWO mutazila of Baghdad. Because of reasons that are not entirely clear, however (the Muslim sources speak of some b ...
THEOLOGICAL CONTEXT 47 This question may be divided into two parts. We must fi rst ask whether Maimonides may have read the nume ...
48 CHAPTER TWO Dahrite, or the “denier of prophecy.” Maimonides does not see any need to relate to Ibn al- Rawandi himself or to ...
THEOLOGICAL CONTEXT 49 verdict is down- to-earth and unambiguous: “These Karaites are not the ones designated by the Sages as mi ...
50 CHAPTER TWO generally diffi cult to know where Maimonides would fi nd a group of Jewish physicians to fi t this description.^ ...
THEOLOGICAL CONTEXT 51 Razi in the latter’s al-Ilahiyat. According to Maimonides, Razi argues there that “there is more evil tha ...
52 CHAPTER TWO could be any person. One cannot understand Maimonides’ emphasis on the fact that those referred to are “some dist ...
Chapter Three An Almohad “Fundamentalist”? As a young adult, between the years 1148 and 1165, Maimonides lived under Almohad rul ...
54 CHAPTER THREE fattened and corrupt cities. Ibn Tumart presented himself as the Mahdi: his leadership retained aspects of mill ...
AN ALMOHAD “FUNDAMENTALIST”? 55 Almohad thought in general and in the thought of the faqih Ibn Tumart in par ticular has been hi ...
56 CHAPTER THREE the relevant rulings, sometimes accompanied by a theological explana- tion of the law’s meaning. Much of the Al ...
AN ALMOHAD “FUNDAMENTALIST”? 57 The persecution of minorities, however, was not uniformly enforced in all Almohad territories an ...
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