Maimonides in his world [electronic resource] : portrait of a Mediterranean thinker / Sarah Stroumsa.
Stroumsa, Sarah.
2009
B759.M34 S77 2009eb
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Title Maimonides in his world [electronic resource] : portrait of a Mediterranean thinker / Sarah Stroumsa.
Author Stroumsa, Sarah.
ISBN 9781400831326 (electronic bk.)
9780691137636
0691137633
Imprint Princeton, N.J. : Princeton University Press, c2009.
Language English
Description 1 online resource (xx, 222 p.) ; 24 cm.
Call Number B759.M34 S77 2009eb
Dewey Decimal Classification 181/.06
Summary "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 him to have wholeheartedly lived, breathed, and espoused the rich Mediterranean culture of his time." "Sarah Stroumsa argues that Maimonides is most accurately viewed as a Mediterranean thinker who consistently interpreted his own Jewish tradition in contemporary multicultural terms. Maimonides spent his entire life in the Mediterranean region, and the religious and philosophical traditions that fed his thought were those of the wider world in which he lived. Stroumsa demonstrates that he was deeply influenced not only by Islamic philosophy but by Islamic culture as a whole, evidence of which she finds in his philosophy as well as his correspondence and legal and scientific writings. She begins with a concise biography of Maimonides, then carefully examines key aspects of his thought, including his approach to religion and the complex world of theology and religious ideas he encountered among Jews, Christians, Muslims, and even heretics; his views about science; the immense and unacknowledged impact of the Almohads on his thought; and his vision of human perfection." "This insightful cultural biography restores Maimonides to his rightful place among medieval philosophers and affirms his central relevance to the study of medieval Islam."--BOOK JACKET.
Bibliography, etc. Note Includes bibliographical references (p. [193]-217) and index.
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Source of Description Description based on print version record.
Series Jews, Christians, and Muslims from the ancient to the modern world.
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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.

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