num_pages: 584
description: Moses Maimonides (1137/38-1204), scholar, physician, and philosopher, was the most influential Jewish thinker of the Middle Ages. In this magisterial biography, Herbert Davidson provides an exhaustive guide to Maimonides' life and works. After considering Maimonides' upbringing and education, Davidson expounds all of his many writings in exhaustive detail, with separate chapters on rabbinic, philosophical, and medical texts. Moses Maimonides has been recognized as the standard work on a towering figure of Western intellectual history.
language: English
title: Moses Maimonides: The Man and His Works
titlecomplete: Moses Maimonides: The Man and His Works
genres: Philosophy, Religion, History
ratings_count: 10
publisher: Oxford University Press