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.
Commentary
Studies 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.Maimonides 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
Maimonidean Studies Journal
- New York : Michael Scharf Publication Trust of Yeshiva University Press, 1990-Perspectives on Maimonides: Philosophical and Historical Studies
-Perspectives on Maimonides: Philosophical and Historical Studies. ed. Joel L. Kraemer Oxford, 1991.
Elisha ben Abuyah and Muslim Heretics in Maimonides’ Writings
-Stroumsa, Sarah. “Elisha ben Abuyah and Muslim Heretics in Maimonides’ Writings.” Maimonidean Studies 3 (1992-93): 173-94.
on The Guide of the PerplexedWho Were Maimonides’ Mutakallimun? Some Remarks on Guide I.73 (part 1 and part 2)
- Schwarz, Michael. “Who Were Maimonides' Mutakallimun? Some Remarks on Guide I.73 (part 1 and part 2).” Maimonidean Studies 2 (1991): 159-209 and Maimonidean Studies 3 (1992-93): 143-172.On The Guide of the PerplexedThe Status of Islam in Maimonidean Halakhah
- Bildstein, Gerald. “The Status of Islam in Maimonidean Halakhah.” Multiculturalism in a Democratic and Jewish State. ed. Avi Sagi, Menachem Mautner, and Ronen Shamir: 465-476.On the Mishneh TorahCriticism of Authority in the Writings of Moses Maimonides and Fakhr al-Din al-Razi
-Langermann, Y. Tzvi. “Criticism of Authority in the Writings of Moses Maimonides and Fakhr al-Din al-Razi.” Early Science and Medicine 7 (2002): 255-275.
On The Guide of the PerplexedMore on the Arabic Sources of Maimonides’ Guide of the Perplexed
-Shifman, Yair. “More on the Arabic Sources of Maimonides’ Guide of the Perplexed.” The Intertwined Worlds of Islam: Essays in Memory of Hava Lazarus-Yafeh: 566-582
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 in his World: Portrait of a Mediterranean Thinker
-Stroumsa, Sarah. Maimonides in his World: Portrait of a Mediterranean Thinker. Princeton: Princeton University Press, 2011.
Biography on Moses MaimonidesLeo Strauss on Maimonides
-Strauss, Leo. Leo Strauss on Maimonides: The Complete Writings. Ed. Kenneth Hart Green. Chicago, U Chicago Press, 2013.