Maimonides in his world : portrait of a Mediterranean thinker / Sarah Stroumsa.
Maimonides in his world : portrait of a Mediterranean thinker / Sarah Stroumsa.
Maimonides in his world : portrait of a Mediterranean thinker / Sarah Stroumsa.
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Princeton, N.J. : Princeton University Press, c2009.
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N181.06/14
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English
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xx, 222 p. ; 24 cm.
Contents
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 "fun...
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Princeton, N.J. : Princeton University Press, c2009.
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New Jersey
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c2009.
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"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 espous...
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Maimonides in his world : portrait of a Mediterranean thinker / Sarah Stroumsa.
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Jews, Christians, and Muslims from the ancient to the modern world.
Includes bibliographical references (p. [193]-217) and index.
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c2009.
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N181.06/14
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0691137633 (alk. paper)
9780691137636 (alk. paper)
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181.06
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991000250649702626
