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Maimonides in his world : portrait of a Mediterranean thinker /
"While the great medieval philosopher, theologian, and physician Maimonides is acknowledged as a leading Jewish thinker, his intellectual contacts with his surrounding world are often described as related primarily to Islamic philosophy. Maimonides in His World challenges this view by revealing...
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Princeton, N.J. :
Princeton University Press,
©2009.
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| Colección: | Jews, Christians, and Muslims from the ancient to the modern world.
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- Maimonides and Mediterranean culture
- Mediterranean cultures
- Maimonides as a Mediterranean thinker
- Horizons
- Transformations in the Jewish world
- Maimnonides and Saadia
- The theological context of Maimonides' thought
- Islamic theology
- Heresies, Jewish and Muslim
- An Almohad "fundamentalist"?
- Almohads
- Maimonides and the Almohads
- Legal aspects
- Theology
- Exegesis and political philosophy
- Philosophy and astronomy
- Conclusion
- La longue durée : Maimonides as a phenomenologist of religion
- Sabians
- Maimonides as an historian of religion
- "A wise and understanding people?" : the religion of the people
- A critical mind : Mamonides as scientist
- Medicine and science
- "Ravings" : Maimonides' concept of pseudo-science
- "From Moses to Moses" : Maimonides' vision of perfection
- "True felicity" : the hereafter in Maimonides' thought
- Issues of life and death : the controversy regarding resurrection
- "Gates for the righteous nation" : the philosopher as leader.