Maimonides in his world
Subtitle: portrait of a Mediterranean thinker
By: Sara Stroumsa.
Series: Jews, Christians, and Muslims from the ancient to the modern world
Publisher: Princeton University Press
Published: 2009
Place of publication: Princeton, N.J
Language: eng
ISBN-13: 9780691137636
Subjects: Maimonides, Moses, -- 1135-1204; Philosophy, Medieval; Intellectual life -- History
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Maimonides and Mediterranean culture; title: Mediterranean cultures; title: Maimonides as a Mediterranean thinker; title: Horizons; title: Transformations in the Jewish world; title: Maimnonides and Saadia; title: The theological context of Maimonides's thought; title: Islamic theology; title: Heresies, Jewish, and Muslim; title: An Almohad "fundamentalist"; title: Almohads; title: Maimonides and the Almohads; title: Legal aspects; title: Theology; title: Exegesis and political philosophy; title: Philosophy and astronomy; title: La longue duree : Maimonides as a phenomenologist of religion; title: Sabians; title: Maimonides as an historian of religions; title: "A wise and understanding people?" : the religion of the people; title: A critical mind : Mamonides as scientist; title: Medicine and science; title: Ravings : Maimonides' concept of pseudo-science; title: From Moses to Moses : Maimonides's vision of perfection; title: True felicity : the hereafter in Maimonides' thought; title: Issues of life and death : the controversy regarding resurrection; title: "Gates for the righteous nation" : the philosopher as leader.