Major Works
Guide of the Perplexed
- Recommended translation: The Guide of the Perplexed. Translated with an introduction and notes by Shlomo Pines.With an introductory essay by Leo Strauss. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1963. Originally composed in Arabic, in 1190.The Guide presents the Law and philosophy as espousing two different, even contradictory views of the world. The perplexity induced by these two different worldviews is Maimonides’ main subject in the Guide.
Other Works
Letter on Astrology (1194)
- Trans. Ralph Lerner in Maimonides’ Empire of Light (Chicago: 2000), pp. 178-187.Letters and Essays: Some important examples
Commentary
Translator’s Introduction: The Philosophical Sources of The Guide of the Perplexed
-Pines, Shlomo. “Translator’s Introduction: The Philosophical Sources of The Guide of the Perplexed.” The Guide of the Perplexed. Chicago, 1963: lviicxxxiv.
On The Guide of the PerplexedStudies in the History of Philosophy and Religion
-Wolfson, Harry Austryn. Studies in the History of Philosophy and Religion. 2 vols. ed. I. Twersky and G. H. Williams. Cambridge, Mass., 1973.
on The Guide of the PerplexedThe Collected Works of Shlomo Pines
- Pines, Shlomo. The Collected Works of Shlomo Pines. 5 vols. Jerusalem, 1979.Repercussions of the Kalam in Jewish Philosophy
- Wolfson, Harry Austryn. Repercussions of the Kalam in Jewish Philosophy. Cambridge, Mass., Harvard University Press, 1979.Islamic and Greek Influences on Maimonides’ Philosophy
-Ivry, Alfred L. “Islamic and Greek Influences on Maimonides’ Philosophy” Maimonides and Philosophy. eds. S. Pines, Y. Yovel: 139-156
on The Guide of the PerplexedMaimonides and Philosophy: Papers Presented at the Sixth Jerusalem Philosophical Encounter
-Maimonides and Philosophy: Papers Presented at the Sixth Jerusalem Philosophical Encounter. May, 1985. (Dordrecht, 1986) edited by Shlomo Pines and Yirmiyahu Yovel
Maimonides on Aristotle and Scientific Method
-Kraemer, Joel L. “Maimonides on Aristotle and Scientific Method.” Moses Maimonides and his Time. ed. E. L. Ormsby: 53-88.
On The Guide of the PerplexedMoses Maimonides and His Time
- Moses Maimonides and His Time. ed. E. Ormsby. Catholic University, Washington DC. 1989Perspectives on Maimonides: Philosophical and Historical Studies
-Perspectives on Maimonides: Philosophical and Historical Studies. ed. Joel L. Kraemer Oxford, 1991.
Maimonides and the Spanish Aristotelian School
-Kraemer, Joel L. “Maimonides and the Spanish Aristotelian School.” Christians, Muslims, and Jews in Medieval and Early Modern Spain. ed. M. D. Meyerson and E. D. English: 40-68.
On The Guide of the PerplexedMaimonides’ Use of (Aristotelian) Dialectic
- Kraemer, Joel L. “Maimonides’ Use of (Aristotelian) Dialectic.” Maimonides and the Sciences. ed. Robert S. Cohen and Hillel Levine: 111-130.On The Guide of the PerplexedMaimonides and the Sciences
-Maimonides and the Sciences. ed. R. S. Cohen and H. Levine. Dordrecht: Kluwer, 2000
The Limitations of Human Knowledge by Shlomo Pines
-Pines, Shlomo. “The Limitations of Human Knowledge According to Al-Farabi, ibn Bajja, and Maimonides.” Studies in Medieval Jewish History and Literature. ed. I. Twersky. vol. 1: 82-109. 79
On The Guide of the PerplexedThe Cambridge Companion to Medieval Jewish Philosophy
- The Cambridge Companion to Medieval Jewish Philosophy. ed. Daniel H. Frank and Oliver Leaman. Cambridge, 2003.The Cambridge Companion to Maimonides
-The Cambridge Companion to Maimonides. Ed. Kenneth Seeskin. Cambridge University Press, Illinois, 2005
The Classic Jewish Philosophers
- Schweid, Eliezer, The Classic Jewish Philosophers: from Saadia through the Renaissance. Trans. L. Levin. Leiden and Boston, Brill Press, 2008.Maimonides: The Life and World of One of Civilization’s Greatest Minds
-Kraemer, Joel. Maimonides: The Life and World of One of Civilization's Greatest Minds. Doubleday, 2008/Random House 2010.
From the publisher: “This authoritative biography of Moses Maimonides, one of the most influential minds in all of human history, illuminates his life as a philosopher, physician, and lawgiver. A biography on a grand scale, it brilliantly explicates one… MoreMaimonides and the Imagination by Aryeh Motzkin
- Motzkin, Aryeh Leo. “Maimonides and the Imagination.” In Aryeh Leo Motzkin, Philosophy and the Jewish Tradition, ed. Yehuda Halper. Leiden and Boston: Brill, 2011: 37-50.On The Guide of the PerplexedOn the Limitations of Human Knowledge
-Motzkin, Aryeh Leo. “On the Limitations of Human Knowledge.” In Aryeh Leo Motzkin, Philosophy and the Jewish Tradition, ed. Yehuda Halper. Leiden and Boston: Brill, 2011: 147-151.
On The Guide of the PerplexedLeo Strauss on Maimonides
-Strauss, Leo. Leo Strauss on Maimonides: The Complete Writings. Ed. Kenneth Hart Green. Chicago, U Chicago Press, 2013.
Matter and Form of Maimonides’ Guide
- Stern, Josef. The Matter and Form of Maimonides' Guide. Cambridge, Mass., Harvard University Press, 2013.