Maimonides in His World. Portrait of a Mediterranean Thinker
78 CHAPTER THREE He clearly was an elitist,^106 but he also believed that some fundamen- tals (usul) ought to be taught to peopl ...
AN ALMOHAD “FUNDAMENTALIST”? 79 for him abstract constructs. The Almohads, on the other hand, offered a living model: a po litic ...
80 CHAPTER THREE Philosophy and Astronomy An anecdote recounted by the historian Abd al- Wahid al- Marrakushi depicts the secon ...
AN ALMOHAD “FUNDAMENTALIST”? 81 Almohads were no literalists.^118 To the extent that the “revolt” refl ects Almohad tendencies, ...
82 CHAPTER THREE position allows him to continue using Ptolemaic astronomy without claiming it to be the truth. He can thus poin ...
AN ALMOHAD “FUNDAMENTALIST”? 83 As mentioned above, the Almohads were depicted in earlier modern scholarship as what are popular ...
Chapter Four La Longue Durée: Maimonides as a Phenomenologist of Religion Through his studies of what he considered to be ancien ...
LA LONGUE DURÉE 85 practice pagan worship, conducting ceremonies universally considered to be cruel and repulsive.^4 The individ ...
86 CHAPTER FOUR the information they had received, and attempted to resolve them by distinguishing between several kinds of Sabi ...
Harran, but are far from refl ecting the colorful descriptions in the Arab sources.^14 The plethora of diffi culties and contrad ...
88 CHAPTER FOUR De Blois’s suggestion refl ects a theory proposed some dozen years ago by Michel Tardieu. According to this lead ...
are sometimes dubious.^25 In par ticular, one cannot ignore the fact that Masudi lived four centuries after the events on which ...
90 CHAPTER FOUR In analyzing the Arabic sources regarding the Sabians, one must take into account the development of the local r ...
mately, however, Maimonides’ writings are unhelpful for identifying the Sabians, since for Maimonides, the Sabians were not a sp ...
92 CHAPTER FOUR In order to reach such a phenomenological view, Maimonides un- doubtedly perused sources different from those us ...
route rather than taking the shortest way: “God did not lead them by way of the land of the Philistines, ki it was nearer” (Ex. ...
94 CHAPTER FOUR the beliefs of idolatry are false, even when they contain a grain of truth. For example, some idolaters believe ...
writings as well.^49 His main interest is in the development of Judaism, but it seems that he used this same basic principle to ...
96 CHAPTER FOUR According to Maimonides’ description, at the basis of Sabian theurgy is the belief in the ruhaniyyat associated ...
his thought. For example, Maimonides distinguishes between “the fi rst (Divine) intention,” which is the elimination of idolatry ...
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