Maimonides' Guide of the perplexed in translation : a history from the thirteenth century to the twentieth / edited by Josef Stern, James T. Robinson, and Yonatan Shemesh.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Stern, Josef, 1949- editor.

Robinson, James T., 1965- editor.

Shemesh, Yonatan, editor.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Maimonides, Moses, 1135-1204. Dalālat al-ḥāʼirīn.

Maimonides, Moses.

Maimonides, Moses, 1135-1204--Translations--History and criticism.

Maimonides, Moses, 1135-1204--Influence.

Maimonides, Moses, 1135-1204.

Jewish philosophy.

Dalālat al-ḥāʼirīn (Maimonides, Moses).

Influence (Literary, artistic, etc.).

Translations.

Genre:

Criticism, interpretation, etc.

Physical Description:

vii, 481 pages ; 23 cm

Place of Publication:

Chicago ; London : The University of Chicago Press, 2019.

Contents:

Introduction / Josef Stern

The history of translations of the Guide. Moreh ha-nevukhim: the first Hebrew translation of the Guide of the perplexed / James T. Robinson

Al-̣Ḥarizi's translation of the Guide of the perplexed in its cultural moment / Raymond P. Scheindlin

Dux neutrorum and the Jewish tradition of the Guide of the perplexed / Caterina Rigo

Pedro de Toledo's Mostrador e enseñador de los turbados: the Christian reception of Maimonides' Guide in fifteenth-century Spain / Luis M. Girón Negrón

The second Ibn Tibbon: Salomon Munk and his translation of the Guide / Paul B. Fenton

Michael Friedländer's pioneering English translation of the Guide / Warren Zev Harvey

The elegance of precision: on Pines's translation of the literary parts of the Guide / Sarah Stroumsa

Pines's translation of the Guide: alternative possibilities / Alfred L. Ivry

Rabbi Yosef Qafih's modern medieval translation of the Guide / Y. Tzvi Langermann

Michael Schwarz's Hebrew translation of Maimonides' Guide of the perplexed / Aviram Ravitsky

Key terms in translations of Maimonides' Guide of the perplexed / Steven Harvey

The impact of the Guide in translation. Maimonides and Aquinas on divine attributes: the importance of Avicenna / Richard C. Taylor

The Guide of the perplexed in early modern philosophy and Spinoza / Steven Nadler

Shlomo Pines and the rediscovery of Maimonides in contemporary philosophy / Kenneth Seeskin

Maimonides as a student of Islamic religious thought: revisiting Shlomo Pines's "translator's introduction" and its comments on Al-Ghazālī / Frank Griffel.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Local Notes:

Copy 1. Binding: includes original dust-jacket.

ISBN:

9780226457635

022645763X

OCLC:

1089839869