ABBREVIATIONS
Works of MaimonidesCommentary on the Aphorisms of Hippocrates,= Moshe ben Maimon:
Commentary on the Aphorisms of Hippocrates, ed. Suessmann Munt-
ner, Hebrew trans. Moshe Ibn Tibbon (Maimonides, Medical Works,
III) (Jerusalem: Mosad Harav Kook, 1961).
Commentary on the Mishnah=Mishnahim Perush Rabbenu Moshe ben
Maimon, ed. J. Kapah (Jerusalem, 1965).
Dalala= Musa ben Maymun,Dalalat al-hairin, ed. S. Munk and I. Yoel
(Jerusalem, 1931).
Epistulae= Moshe ben Maimon, Epistulae, ed. D. H. Baneth (Jerusalem,
1946).
Epistles=Iggerot ha- Rambam, ed. I. Shailat, 2 vols (Jerusalem: Maaliyot,
1987–88).
The Guide of the Perplexed: References to the Guide indicate part and
chapter, with a following reference, respectively, to Munk- Joel’s edi-
tion of the Judaeo- Arabic text (page and line) and to Pines’s En glish
translation. For example, Guide, 3.27 (Dalala, 371:17; Pines, 510),
indicatesThe Guide of the Perplexed, Part 3, chapter 27 (page 371,
line 17, in Munk- Joel’s edition; page 510 in Pines’s translation).
Letters= Rabbi Moshe Ben Maimon, Iggerot: Letters, ed. and trans.
J. Kafi h (Jerusalem, 1987).
Medical Aphorisms= Maimonides, Medical Aphorisms, Treatises 1– 5
(Kitab al- fusul fil-tibb). ed., trans. and annotated by Gerrit Bos (The
Medical Works of Moses Maimonides) (Provo: Brigham Young Uni-
versity Press, 2004).
Medical Aphorisms (Pirqei Moshe), ed. Seussmann Muntner (Jerusalem,
1959).
Mishneh Torah= Moshe ben Maimon, Mishneh Torah (Jerusalem,
1965).
On Asthma=Maimonides On Asthma (maqala fil-rabwi), ed., trans.
and annotated by Gerrit Bos. (The Complete Medical Works of Moses
Maimonides, vol. 1) (Provo: Brigham Young University 2002).
Pines= Moses Maimonides, The Guide of the Perplexed. Trans. with an
Introduction and Notes by Shlomo Pines (Chicago and London: Uni-
versity of Chicago Press, 1963).
Responsa= Moshe ben Maimon, Responsa, ed. J. Blau. 4 vols. (Jerusa-
lem, 1986).