Averroes and Averroism in Medieval Jewish Thought.
The present volume explores how and why Averroes, a Muslim philosopher and jurist, became one of the most important figures in the history of Jewish philosophy.
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| Superior document: | Maimonides Library for Philosophy and Religion Series ; v.4 |
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| Place / Publishing House: | Boston : : BRILL,, 2023. ©2024. |
| Year of Publication: | 2023 |
| Edition: | 1st ed. |
| Language: | English |
| Series: | Maimonides Library for Philosophy and Religion Series
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| Physical Description: | 1 online resource (466 pages) |
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Table of Contents:
- Intro
- Contents
- Foreword
- Notes on Contributors
- Part 1 What Is Jewish Averroism?
- 1 Was al-Ġazālī an Avicennist? Some Provocative Reflections on Jewish Averroism
- 2 How a Rehabilitated Notion of Latin Averroism Could Help in Understanding Jewish Averroism
- Part 2 The Maimonides/Averroes Complex
- 3 Is Maimonides's Biblical Exegesis Averroistic?
- 4 Averroes and Ğābir ibn Aflaḥ among the Jews: New Interpretations for Joseph ben Judah ibn Simon's Allegorical Correspondence with Maimonides
- 5 The Garden of Eden and the Scope of Human Knowledge: Maimonides, Falaquera, and Nissim of Marseille
- 6 The Role of Averroes's Tahāfut in Narboni's Commentary on the Guide
- Part 3 Averroes in Jewish Religious Discourse
- 7 Averroism, the Jewish-Christian Debate, and Mass Conversions in Iberia
- 8 Double Truth in the Writings of Medieval Jewish Averroists: An Esoteric Way of Appealing to Both Sceptics and Non-sceptics
- 9 Averroes's Influence upon Theological Responses to Scepticism in Late Medieval Jewish Philosophy
- Part 4 Jewish Authors Doing Philosophy with (and about) Averroes
- 10 Love and Hate May Lead Astray: Moses Halevi's Rejection of Averroes
- 11 Averroism in Judah ha-Cohen's Midraš ha-ḥokhmah?
- 12 Falaquera the Averroist
- 13 The Necessary Existent, Simplicity, and Incorporeality: An Anti-Avicennian-Averroist Approach
- 14 Gersonides and Kaspi on the Uncertainty of the Future and the Practical Intellect
- 15 Rabbi Moses ben Judah (Rambi) as an Averroist
- 16 Crescas's Attitude toward Averroes
- 17 Matter and Elements: Al-Ġazālī and Averroes as a Source of Isaac Abravanel's "The Forms of the Elements"
- Part 5 Averroes in Hebrew and from Hebrew
- 18 Choking on Water, the Stratification of Society, and the Death of Socrates in the Hebrew Averroes.
- 19 Ṭodros Ṭodrosi's accessus ad auctorem: A Hebrew "Aristotelian Prologue" to Averroes's Middle Commentaries on Rhetoric and Poetics
- 20 Jacob Mantino and the Alleged Second Latin Translation of Averroes's Long Commentary on On the Soul 3.5 and 3.36
- Index.