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Maimonides (Joel L. Kraemer)
Maimonides: The Life and World of One of Civilization's Greatest Minds
Extensive biography reconstructing Maimonides's life from the Cairo Genizah documents and Arabic sources, with attention to his Mediterranean and Islamic world.
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Study by Joel L. Kraemer, not a work by Maimonides.
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English
Maimonides: The Life and World of One of Civilization's Greatest Minds
Doubleday, 2010
ISBN 9780385512008
Other works by Maimonides
- Commentary on the Mishnah (Kitāb al-Sirāj) · 1168
- Introduction to the Mishnah · 1168
- Introduction to Perek Helek: the Thirteen Principles of Faith · 1168
- Eight Chapters · 1168
- Book of the Commandments (Sefer ha-Mitzvot) · 1170
- Mishneh Torah (The Strong Hand) · 1178
- The Guide of the Perplexed · 1190
- Epistle to Yemen · 1172
- Epistle on Martyrdom (Iggeret ha-Shemad) · 1165
- Treatise on Resurrection · 1191
- Letter on Astrology (to the Sages of Montpellier) · 1195
- Letter to Obadiah the Proselyte · 1180
- Letter to Samuel ibn Tibbon · 1199
- Responsa (Teshuvot) · 1204
- Letters (Iggerot) · 1204
- Laws of the Jerusalem Talmud (fragment) · 1170
- Commentaries on the Babylonian Talmud (lost) · 1160
- Treatise on the Art of Logic · 1160
- Treatise on the Calendar · 1158
- Extracts from Galen (The Art of Cure) · 1190
- Commentary on Hippocrates' Aphorisms · 1195
- Medical Aphorisms (Chapters of Moses) · 1190
- Treatise on Hemorrhoids · 1190
- Treatise on Cohabitation · 1190
- Treatise on Asthma · 1190
- Treatise on Poisons and Their Antidotes · 1199
- Regimen of Health · 1198
- On the Elucidation of Some Symptoms and the Response to Them · 1200
- Glossary of Drug Names · 1200
- Chapters on Happiness (spurious)
- Treatise on Unity (doubtful)
- Oath and Prayer of the Physician (spurious) · 1793
- Ethical Will to his Son (spurious)
- Maimonides: Life and Thought (Moshe Halbertal) · 2009
Sources
- Kraemer, Joel L. Maimonides: The Life and World of One of Civilization's Greatest Minds. Nueva York: Doubleday, 2008.
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