In and Around Maimonides : : Original Essays / / Y. Langermann.

• Superior document: Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter DG Plus PP Package 2021 Part 2
• VerfasserIn: Langermann, Y.,
• Place / Publishing House: Piscataway, NJ : : Gorgias Press, , [2021]; ©2021
• Year of Publication: 2021
• Language: English
• Series: Judaism in Context ; 25
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (246 p.)
• Other title: Frontmatter --; TABLE OF CONTENTS --; PREFACE --; CHAPTER ONE. AGAINST WHOM IS MAIMONIDES ARGUING IN GUIDE I, 68? --; CHAPTER TWO. CONFIGURING THE SOUL: MAIMONIDES ON THE IMPROVEMENT OF MORAL CHARACTER --; CHAPTER THREE. WHY IS THERE NO DISCUSSION OF THE EQUIVOCAL TERM ʾOR (‘LIGHT’) IN THE GUIDE OF THE PERPLEXED? --; CHAPTER FOUR. THE FACE OF GOD IN THE THOUGHT OF MOSES MAIMONIDES AND THE ARABOPHONE MAIMONIDEANS --; CHAPTER FIVE. AN EXTENSIVE MARGINALIUM ON THE EXPRESSION, ‘HUMANS ARE SOCIAL BY NATURE’, IN A YEMENI COMMENTARY TO MAIMONIDES’ GUIDE --; CHAPTER SIX. ‘THE MOST DIFFICULT OF ALL THE PREMISES’: A YEMENI COMMENTARY TO MAIMONIDES’ GUIDE, BOOK II, PROPOSITION 16 --; CHAPTER SEVEN. IN SEARCH OF ANCIENT AUTHORITY: THE APPEAL TO PLATO AT CRITICAL JUNCTURES IN HALEVI’S CUZARI AND MAIMONIDES’ GUIDE --; CHAPTER EIGHT. THE VOCABULARIES OF ‘RELIGION’ IN THE WRITINGS OF HALEVI AND MAIMONIDES --; BIBLIOGRAPHY --; INDEX
• Format: Mode of access: Internet via World Wide Web.
• ISBN: 9781463243319; 9783110743357; 9783110754001; 9783110753776; 9783110754193; 9783110753974; 9783110743302
• DOI: 10.31826/9781463243319
• Access: restricted access
• Hierarchical level: Monograph
• Statement of Responsibility: Y. Langermann.

In and Around Maimonides presents eight highly focused studies on Moses Maimonides and those around him. “In Maimonides” refers to close readings of passages from Maimonides’ writings; “around Maimonides” refers to concentric circles, beginning with his own family (his father R. Maimon and his son R. Abraham), with whom Maimonides’ views are in conversation; medieval Yemen, where Maimonides’ writings were studied and glossed in their original language; Judah Halevi, a major figure in Andalusian Judaeo-Arabic culture with whom Maimonides is often contrasted; and, finally a wide range of Judaeo-Arabic figures, all of whom engaged with the vocabularies of religion. These studies offer new and important insights into the thought of Maimonides on a variety of issues, such as the capacity of humans to better themselves morally, the political nature of prophecy, and the proper way to approach God.