Maimonides in His World. Portrait of a Mediterranean Thinker

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Elisha Ben Abuya, 43– 45, 49, 137
Epistle on Astrology (Maimonides), 45,
140–41
Epistle on Forced Conversion (Maimo-
nides), 60
Epistles of the Pure Brethren, The, 100
Epistle to Yemen (Maimonides), 25, 27,
41, 120– 21
Equivalence of Proofs, 50n89
exegesis, 73– 78

Farabi, Abu Nasr al-, 16, 28– 29, 29n19,
31, 33, 91n34, 106, 127, 135– 36, 164,
184;On the Changing Beings, 28;
Commentary on the Nicomachean
Ethics, 140; Discourse, 28– 29;
Encyclopedia, 134; Epistle on
Medicine, 134
Fatimids, 9, 16– 17
Fez, 8, 59– 60
forced conversion, 16
forgeries, examination of, 166– 79
fundamentalism, 58
Funkenstein, Amos, 104

Galen, 135– 36
Garden of Eden, as earthly place, 158
Ghayat al-hakim, 100
Ghazali, AbuHamid al-, 9– 10, 25, 44, 54,
69, 123– 24;al-Munqidh min al-dalal,
25–26;Intentions of the Phi losophers,
156
Goitein, Shlomo Dov, 3, 5– 6, 13
Graetz, Heinrich, 104
Greek philosophy, 12, 28
Guide of the Perplexed (Maimonides),
20, 24, 37– 38, 45, 70, 73, 90– 91, 99,
107–10, 139, 142, 149, 161, 179,
184–85

hadhayan, 145– 49
Halevi, Judah, 25, 36, 40, 98, 101n86,
108–9;Kuzari, 25
Harran, 86– 88
Hebrew language, 19– 22
hereafter, demythologizing of, 159– 60
heresies, Islamic, 38– 52
heresies, Jewish, 38– 52
heresy, 39, 121
heretic:min, 38– 52; zindiq, 38– 52
Hippocrates, 133, 135

Hourani, G. F., 106

Husik, Isaac, 33

Ibn
Abbas, 12

Ibn Abi Usaybi
a, 30n24, 60, 129; Classes

of Physicians, 28

Ibn
Adi, Yahya, 29– 31

Ibn al- Jawzi, 144

Ibn al- Qifti, 126, 128– 31, 133

Ibn al- Rawandi, 45– 48, 144

Ibn Bajja, 15– 16, 95, 184– 85

Ibn Ezra, Abraham, 98, 108

IbnHazm, 144

Ibn Qurra, Tabit, 88

Ibn Qutayba, 12

Ibn Rushd, Abul-Walid.See Averroes

(Ibn Rushd)

IbnSaddiq, Joseph, 27, 36

Ibn Sana al- Mulk, 129

Ibn Shim
on, Joseph, 14, 18, 36– 37,

57n18, 170; Silencing Epistle on the

Resurrection of the Dead, 166– 79

Ibn Tibbon, Samuel, 24, 27, 30, 97,

151

IbnTufayl, 16, 184– 85

Ibn Tumart, Muhammed, 53– 55, 61, 68,

77, 81

idolatry, 93– 95, 93n44, 114

immortality of soul, 154– 61

infl uences, importance of, xiii

intellect, 154; permanence of, 164

Iran, Sassanian, 106

Islamic, use of term, 7n25

Islamic context, of Judaeo- Arabic

philosophy, xii

Islamic heretics, 45– 48

Islamickalam (theology), 17, 24– 38;

Ash
ariyya, 34– 35;Mu
tazila, 32,

34–35

Islamic law, 9– 10, 14; fi qh, 14; madhhab,

9

Islamic po litical thought, 183

Israeli, Isaac, 27, 49– 50;Book of

Defi nitions, 143; Book of Elements,

143

Jesus, 43

Jewishkalam, 26– 38; Karaite, 26

(see also Karaite heresy); Rabbanite,

26 (see also Rabbanite Jews)

Jewish law (halacha), xii, 13– 14