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This authoritative biography of Moses Maimonides, one of the very most influential minds in all of human history, illuminates his life as a philosopher, medical professional, and lawgiver. A biography on a grand level, it brilliantly explicates one man’s life against the background of the cultural, religious, and political issues of his time.
Maimonides was created in Córdoba, in Muslim-ruled Spain, in 1138 and perished in Cairo in 1204. He lived in an Arab-Islamic environment from his early on years in Spain and North Africa to his old age in Egypt, where he was immersed in its culture and contemporary society. His life, career, and writings will be the highest expression of the intertwined worlds of Judaism and Islam.
Maimonides lived in tumultuous times, at the top of the Reconquista in Spain and the Crusades in Palestine. His monumental compendium of Jewish law, the Mishneh Torah, became a basis of most following Jewish legal rules and helped bring him recognition as one of the primary lawgivers of humankind. In Egypt, his training as a physician earned him a location in the entourage of the great Sultan Saladin, and he composed medical works in Arabic which were translated into Hebrew and Latin and studied for years and years in Europe. To be a philosopher and scientist, he contributed to mathematics and astronomy, logic and ethics, politics and theology. His Guide of the Perplexed, a masterful interweaving of religious tradition and clinical and philosophic thought, influenced generations of Christian, Muslim, and Jewish thinkers.
Now, in a stunning work of scholarship or grant, Joel Kraemer instructs the complete report of Maimonides’ wealthy life. MAIMONIDES reaches once a portrait of your great historical body and an excursion into the Mediterranean world of the twelfth hundred years. Joel Kraemer draws on a wealth of original options to re-create a remarkable period ever sold when Jewish, Christian, and Muslim customs clashed and mingled in a setting alive with extreme intellectual exchange and religious conflict.
