Perspectives on Maimonides

Joel L. Kraemer is a former Professor of Jewish Studies and of Social Thought, University of Chicago.

‘It is very apposite to have it now in paperback: less expensive, it will allow students to possess a volume that will acquaint them with high standards of scholarship, showing at the same time that although so much has been said and written about Maimonides, it is still possible to come up with new and interesting insights into his life and works, which continue to be interpreted very differently by different scholars.’ - Gad Freudenthal{::}, Journal of Religious History

• Abbreviations Contributors Introduction - JOEL L. KRAEMER Part I Philosophy: Ethics, Politics, Metaphysics 1 The Ethical Views of Maimonides within the context of Islamicate Civilization - LAWRENCE V. BERMAN 2 Maimonides’ Governance of the Solitary - RALPH LERNER 3 Maimonides in the Sultan's Palace - STEVEN HARVEY 4 Maimonides on the Philosophic Sciences in his Treatise on the Art of Logic - JOEL L. KRAEMER 5 Why Maimonides was not a Mutakallim - WARREN ZEV HARVEY 6 Neoplatonic Currents in Maimonides' Thought - ALFRED L. IVRY 7 Maimonides’ Quest beyond Philosophy and Prophecy - ITHAMAR GRUENWALD 8 The 'True Perplexity': The Guide of the Perplexed, Part II, Chapter 24 - TZVI LANGERMANN 9 Maimonides on Religious Language - ARTHUR HYMAN Part II Jewish Law 10 Maimonides’ Guide of the Perplexed on Forbidden Food in the light of his own Medical Opinion - JACOB LEVINGER 11 Holy War in Maimonidean Law - GERALD J. BLIDSTEIN 12 ‘To the Utmost of Human Capacity’: Maimonides on the Days of the Messiah - AVIEZER RAVITZKY 13 Maimonides on Eretz Yisrael: Halakhic, Philosophic, and Historical Perspectives - ISADORE TWERSKY Part III History 14 ‘At Our Place in al-Andalus’, ‘At Our Place in the Maghreb’ - JOSHUA BLAU 15 The Early Decades of Ayyubid Rule - JOSEPH DRORY 16 Saladin’s Egypt and Maimonides - ANDREW S. EHRENKREUTZ 17 Saladin’s Religious Personality, Policy, and Image - MICHAEL WINTER Index