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Maimonides in His World
Portrait of a Mediterranean Thinker
Taschenbuch von Sarah Stroumsa
Sprache: Englisch

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While the great medieval philosopher, theologian, and physician Maimonides is acknowledged as a leading Jewish thinker, his intellectual contacts with his surrounding world are often described as related primarily to Islamic philosophy. Maimonides in His World challenges this view by revealing him to have wholeheartedly lived, breathed, and espoused the rich Mediterranean culture of his time.

Sarah Stroumsa argues that Maimonides is most accurately viewed as a Mediterranean thinker who consistently interpreted his own Jewish tradition in contemporary multicultural terms. Maimonides spent his entire life in the Mediterranean region, and the religious and philosophical traditions that fed his thought were those of the wider world in which he lived. Stroumsa demonstrates that he was deeply influenced not only by Islamic philosophy but by Islamic culture as a whole, evidence of which she finds in his philosophy as well as his correspondence and legal and scientific writings. She begins with a concise biography of Maimonides, then carefully examines key aspects of his thought, including his approach to religion and the complex world of theology and religious ideas he encountered among Jews, Christians, Muslims, and even heretics; his views about science; the immense and unacknowledged impact of the Almohads on his thought; and his vision of human perfection.

This insightful cultural biography restores Maimonides to his rightful place among medieval philosophers and affirms his central relevance to the study of medieval Islam.
While the great medieval philosopher, theologian, and physician Maimonides is acknowledged as a leading Jewish thinker, his intellectual contacts with his surrounding world are often described as related primarily to Islamic philosophy. Maimonides in His World challenges this view by revealing him to have wholeheartedly lived, breathed, and espoused the rich Mediterranean culture of his time.

Sarah Stroumsa argues that Maimonides is most accurately viewed as a Mediterranean thinker who consistently interpreted his own Jewish tradition in contemporary multicultural terms. Maimonides spent his entire life in the Mediterranean region, and the religious and philosophical traditions that fed his thought were those of the wider world in which he lived. Stroumsa demonstrates that he was deeply influenced not only by Islamic philosophy but by Islamic culture as a whole, evidence of which she finds in his philosophy as well as his correspondence and legal and scientific writings. She begins with a concise biography of Maimonides, then carefully examines key aspects of his thought, including his approach to religion and the complex world of theology and religious ideas he encountered among Jews, Christians, Muslims, and even heretics; his views about science; the immense and unacknowledged impact of the Almohads on his thought; and his vision of human perfection.

This insightful cultural biography restores Maimonides to his rightful place among medieval philosophers and affirms his central relevance to the study of medieval Islam.
Über den Autor
Sarah Stroumsa
Details
Erscheinungsjahr: 2011
Genre: Philosophie
Jahrhundert: Deutscher Idealismus
Rubrik: Geisteswissenschaften
Medium: Taschenbuch
Seiten: 246
ISBN-13: 9780691152523
ISBN-10: 0691152527
Sprache: Englisch
Ausstattung / Beilage: Paperback
Einband: Kartoniert / Broschiert
Autor: Stroumsa, Sarah
Hersteller: Princeton University Press
Maße: 234 x 156 x 15 mm
Von/Mit: Sarah Stroumsa
Erscheinungsdatum: 20.11.2011
Gewicht: 0,425 kg
preigu-id: 107813271
Über den Autor
Sarah Stroumsa
Details
Erscheinungsjahr: 2011
Genre: Philosophie
Jahrhundert: Deutscher Idealismus
Rubrik: Geisteswissenschaften
Medium: Taschenbuch
Seiten: 246
ISBN-13: 9780691152523
ISBN-10: 0691152527
Sprache: Englisch
Ausstattung / Beilage: Paperback
Einband: Kartoniert / Broschiert
Autor: Stroumsa, Sarah
Hersteller: Princeton University Press
Maße: 234 x 156 x 15 mm
Von/Mit: Sarah Stroumsa
Erscheinungsdatum: 20.11.2011
Gewicht: 0,425 kg
preigu-id: 107813271
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