Maimonides in His World. Portrait of a Mediterranean Thinker

Abraham (Patriarch), 185– 86
Abraham ibn Daud, 36
Abu Ya
qub Yusuf (Almohad ruler), 80
afterlife, 122. See also hereafter
Alexander of Aphrodisias, 14– 15
Alexandrian Academy, Farabi’s concentra-
tion on, 29
Alexandrian school, Christianization of,
28
al-Filaha al- nabatiyya, 100
Almohads, 8– 10, 53– 59; and astronomy,
80–82; and legal methodology, 61– 70;
and philosophy, 80– 82; and theology,
70–79
Almoravids, 8, 54

Amiri, Abu al-Hasan al-, 136– 37, 143
anachronism, 30
Andalusians, 36
anthropomorphism, 54, 70– 72
Arabic language, 19– 22
Aristotelian philosophy, 15, 44, 51, 97
Aristotelian physics, 80– 83
Aristotelian tradition, Arabic, 14– 15, 30,
34
Aristotle, 14– 15, 132, 149
astrology, 96, 114, 140, 146; distinguished
from astronomy, 141
astronomy, 80– 82, 113– 14, 125, 141
Averroes (Ibn Rushd), 14, 16, 19, 67– 70,
73–75, 80, 92n41, 116, 124, 154, 182;
Bidayat al- mujtahid, 68
Avicenna (Ibn Sina), 16, 18– 19, 145, 154,
160–64, 174, 182; Epistle Against
Astrology, 146– 47
Avot (tractate), 11
Ayyubids, 9, 17

Baghdad, 86, 168
Baghdadi, Abu al- Barakat al-, 18, 172
Baghdadi,
Abd al- Latif al-, 20
Baron, Salo W., 33, 41n59
Basir, Yusuf al-, 35
Benjamin of Tudela, 168– 69
Berman, Lawrence, 103
Bible (Hebrew), and hereafter, 156

biblical references: Ezekiel 17:3, 1;

Jeremiah 2:25, 60; Psalms 94:8– 9, 51

Biruni, Abu Rayhan al-, 143

Bitriq, Yahya al-, 30, 30n24

Boethusians, 42

Book of Commandments (Maimonides),

21

Braudel, Fernand, 3– 4

Byzantium, Christian, 106

Cairo, 168

Cairo Geniza, 3, 100n80, 151n123

censorship, 183

Christianization, of Alexandrian philoso-

phy, 28

Christiankalam, 26– 38

Christians: and Aristotelianism, 15;

Byzantine, 122; Greek and Syriac, 29;

and intellectual history of Muslim Spain,

xiii–xiv; Oriental, 96; as protected

minority, 56; and transmission of

Hellenic culture to Arabs, 32; use

of Greek philosophy, 28

Chwolsohn, Daniel, 90, 91n33, 103

Code (Maimonides). See Mishneh Torah

Commentary on the Mishnah (Maimo-

nides), 11, 21, 38, 43, 45, 71– 72, 107,

150–51, 157, 166

comparisons, systematic, 101

convivencia, 5– 6

Cordoba, 8

cultural biography, xii

cultural infl uence, 32– 33

darshan, 122

David ben Judah Leon, 83

divinations, 113

divine accommodation, 105

divine economy, 92

Dunash ben Tamim, 36

Egypt: ascendance over Iraq as Jewish

center, 169; Ayyubid, 9; Fatimid,

8–9

Egyptians: as Sabians, 91

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