Guide for the Perplexed, Part 2
Author: first_name: Moses
last_name: Maimonides
Language: English
Year: 1904

In <i>the Guide of the Perplexed</i> Maimonides (Moses ben Maimon) achieved an original and highly influential synthesis of religious and secular learning, drawing on Rabbinical teachings, the Aristotelian and neo-Platonic doctrines then current in the Islamic world, as well as his own scriptural exegeses and philosophical arguments. According to <i>Encyclopaedia Judaica</i>, "almost every philosophic work for the remainder of the Middle Ages cited, commented on, or criticized Maimonides' views.