Maimonides in His World. Portrait of a Mediterranean Thinker

222 INDEX

On Asthma (Maimonides), 131

Palestine, 8
persecution of religious minorities, 58
phenomenology, 105
Philo, 26n10
Philoponus, John, 15, 28, 28n15, 29,
29n19
philosophers: Hellenistic, 11– 12; Muslim,
11–12
philosophy: Andalusian, 80; Aristotelian,
15, 44, 51, 97; Greek, 12, 28; harnessed
to religion, 30– 32; Jewish, 26, 107– 11
physicians, 49– 52
physics, Aristotelian, 80– 83
Pines, Shlomo, xiii, 14, 24– 25, 28, 47,
52n94, 73, 87n15, 91n34, 92n41, 96,
98, 100, 149, 163– 64, 185, 189
Pirenne, Henri, 3
Plato,Republic, 116, 183– 84
Platonism, 78, 153, 183– 85
Plotinus, 15
political theory, 79
prophets, denial of, 44
pseudo-science, 138– 52
Ptolemaic astronomy, 80– 83
Ptolemy, 80

Qirqisani, 35, 98
Quran, and concept of hereafter, 153, 156

Rabbanite Jews, 32
“ravings,” 138– 52
Razi, Abu Bakr Muhammad b. Zakariyya
al-, 50– 51, 51n92, 135, 144; Divine
Things, 142– 46
reason and truth, 120
religion: development of, 92; pop ular,
111–24
resurrection, 165– 83; and resuscitation,
180

Saadia Gaon (Sa
adia ben Yosef Fayyumi),
23, 108, 119, 159, 170
Sabian calendar, 85
Sabian literature, 16
Sabians, 13, 49n88, 84– 105, 139, 150,
179n87, 185; and Arabic sources,
84–91; Maimonides on, 91– 105

Sadducees, 42

sages, 150; Talmudic, 118– 19

Samuel ben 
Eli (Gaon of Baghdad), 18,

157, 169; Treatise on Resurrection,

166–79

Samuel ibn Tibbon, 14– 15

science, 16, 125– 38.See also astronomy;

pseudo-science

Seville, 8

Shahrastani, 86, 98

Shi
ur Qoma, 71– 72, 150

soul: immortality of, 154– 61, 170;

improvement after death, 162– 63;

survival of, 154

sources, identifi cation of, 24

Steinschneider, Moritz, 33, 83, 100, 103,

127

Strauss, Leo, 37, 77, 177– 79, 183

Sufi sm, 17

symbiosis (Goitein), 5

Talmud: and hereafter, 156; on heresy,

42–43

Tawhidi, AbuHayyan al-, 30n24, 163

Tayyib, Ibn al-, 30

Themistius, 14– 15

theology, 70– 72

thought, Maimonides’ defi nition of, xi

Torah, Muslims and, 109

translations, 19– 22

Treatise on Logic (Maimonides),

126–28

Treatise on Resurrection (Maimonides),

165–83; authenticity of, 165– 66

truth, 12; quest for, 28; and reason,

120

understanding, limits of, 148,

148n115

usul, 55, 58– 59, 64, 67, 78, 82– 83

whirlpool effect, xiv

wine, Muslim, 110, 112

world, eternity of, 44

Yahya b. 
Adi, 15, 145

Zahiri school, 80– 81

Zoroastrians, as Sabians, 91