Maimonides in His World. Portrait of a Mediterranean Thinker

58 CHAPTER THREE they behave like our coreligionists and adhere to our tradition; but God alone knows what they hide in their he ...

AN ALMOHAD “FUNDAMENTALIST”? 59 in the Almohad system, provided it be understood that the parallelism is not complete. Maimonide ...

60 CHAPTER THREE to the Almohad capital.^29 Even in these more relaxed circumstances, however, young converts were expected to s ...

AN ALMOHAD “FUNDAMENTALIST”? 61 nides seems to corroborate al- Marrakushi’s claim that the Almohads were aware of the insincerit ...

62 CHAPTER THREE Maimonides major halachic work, the Mishneh Torah, was sharply criticized as soon as it was published. People c ...

AN ALMOHAD “FUNDAMENTALIST”? 63 Law will be easily accessible to all.”^46 The terms in which Maimonides chooses to present his d ...

64 CHAPTER THREE whole oral Torah, requiring no book between them.”^50 In the introduc- tion to his Book of Precepts, Maimonides ...

AN ALMOHAD “FUNDAMENTALIST”? 65 tradition.^55 This is indicated by Maimonides himself: although he evokes the pre cedent of Rabb ...

66 CHAPTER THREE world. Joel Kraemer has forcefully argued for a substantial infl uence of Muslim law (fi qh) on Maimonides. Kra ...

AN ALMOHAD “FUNDAMENTALIST”? 67 in the couple’s house. The amin’s role was to determine the source of es- trangement, attempt to ...

68 CHAPTER THREE attempts to associate the two thinkers also refl ect the fact that there are indeed some striking biographical ...

AN ALMOHAD “FUNDAMENTALIST”? 69 the Jewish people.^70 Furthermore, he chose to begin his Code of Law with a chapter of theologic ...

70 CHAPTER THREE Torah. In other words, it seems plausible that in this case Ghazali’s infl u- ence reached Maimonides through t ...

AN ALMOHAD “FUNDAMENTALIST”? 71 plained to everyone according to his capacity, and ought to be inculcated in virtue of tradition ...

72 CHAPTER THREE words to suggest that he accepted the book as an authentic, authoritative work, or that he condoned the book’s ...

AN ALMOHAD “FUNDAMENTALIST”? 73 Exegesis and Po litical Theory The extent to which Maimonides internalized the Almohad doctrine ...

74 CHAPTER THREE than not, the exoteric teaching, which refl ects the lowest level of under- standing. Averroes frequently uses ...

AN ALMOHAD “FUNDAMENTALIST”? 75 am he who prefers to address that single man by himself, and I do not heed the blame of those ma ...

76 CHAPTER THREE Averroes, on the other hand, does not use the term batin in this con- text (an omission that looks like a consc ...

AN ALMOHAD “FUNDAMENTALIST”? 77 Tumart presented himself as the Mahdi, and his leadership retained as- pects of millenarian mess ...