Moses Maimonides: The Man and His WorksOxford University Press, 2004 M12 9 - 584 pages 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. |
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... Samuel Ibn Tibbon and dated 1199, reports that he treated an unnamed "king [or: prince]" in Cairo as well as the endless ordinary people who came to his home in Fustat for treatment;35 and a Muslim writer reports that Maimonides ...
... Samuel Ibn Tibbon and dated 1199, reports that he treated an unnamed "king [or: prince]" in Cairo as well as the endless ordinary people who came to his home in Fustat for treatment;35 and a Muslim writer reports that Maimonides ...
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... Samuel ha-Nagid, deposed and to replace him for sixty-six days. Samuel was soon restored to the office and he held it until the end of his life. After "the king of Egypt died and there arose a new king over Egypt"—probably the last of ...
... Samuel ha-Nagid, deposed and to replace him for sixty-six days. Samuel was soon restored to the office and he held it until the end of his life. After "the king of Egypt died and there arose a new king over Egypt"—probably the last of ...
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Contents
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2 EDUCATION | 75 |
3 RABBINIC WORKS I | 122 |
4 RABBINIC WORKS II | 189 |
5 RABBINIC WORKS III | 263 |
6 PHILOSOPHIC WORKS I | 305 |
7 PHILOSOPHIC WORKS II | 352 |
8 MEDICAL WORKS | 429 |
9 MISCELLANEOUS WRITINGS | 484 |
10 CONCLUSION | 538 |
INDEX | 557 |
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