Major Works
Commentary on the Mishnah
- The Commentary on the Mishnah has not been translated into English in its entirety. However, there are translations of Maimonides' introduction to Pirqe Aboth called "The Eight Chapters." English translation of Eight Chapters, Introduction to Commentary on Avoth by Joseph Isaac Gorfinkle, New York: Columbia UP, 1912.Maimonides’ first major work sought to give a clear, accessible and practical explanation of Jewish Law as it is laid out in the Mishnah, the first and most authoritative systematization and reorganization of Jewish Law, probably completed around 200… MoreMishneh Torah
- The Mishneh Torah is published in the Yale Judaica series as a 14 volume set entitled The Code of Maimonides. A good place to start is with the second volume, which has been recently re-translated by Menachem Kellner, a noted scholar of Maimonides. Each Volume is listed individually under the category of the "Mishneh Torah".Mishneh Torah (1177) The Mishneh Torah is a 14-volume comprehensive compendium of Jewish Law, giving authoritative legal guidance on virtually every aspect of the Law, e.g., the foundations of the Law, ethical qualities, marriage and divorce law,… More
Other Works
Extracts from Galen (Al-Mukhtaṣarāt )
- Art of Cure: Extracts from Galen. ed. and trans. Uriel S. Barzel; Bibliography by Jacob I. Dienstag. Haifa, 1992Medical writings (1190-1204)Commentary on the Aphorisms of Hippocrates
- Commentary on the Aphorisms of Hippocrates. English trans. Fred Rosner. Haifa: Maimonides Research Institute, 1987Medical writings (1190-1204)The Aphorisms of Moses (Fuṣūl Mūsā, Pirkei Moshe)
-A. Medical aphorisms: Treatises 1-5, Arabic text with English translation, ed. and trans. Gerrit Bos. Provo, Utah, 2004.
B. Medical aphorisms: Treatises 6-9, Arabic text with English translation, ed. and trans. Gerrit Bos. Provo, Utah, 2007
C. Medical aphorisms: Treatises 10-15, Arabic text with English translation, ed. and trans. Gerrit Bos. Provo, Utah, 2010
D. Medical aphorisms: Treatises 16-21, Arabic text with English translation, ed. and trans. Gerrit Bos. Provo, Utah, 2013Medical writings (1190-1204)On Hemorrhoids (Fī al-Bawāsīr )
- On Hemorrhoids, Arabic text with English translation, ed. and trans. Gerrit Bos and Michael McVaugh, Provo, Utah, 2012Medical writings (1190-1204)On Sexual Intercourse (Fī al-Jimāʿa)
-Maimonides’ On Sexual Intercourse. Fī al-Jimāʿa. trans. Morris Gorlin. Brooklyn, 1961.
Medical writings (1190-1204)On Asthma (Fī al-Rabw) (1190)
-A. On Asthma: Volume 1, Arabic text with English translation, ed. and trans. Gerrit Bos. Provo, Utah, 2001
B. On Asthma: Volume 2: Critical Editions of Hebrew and Latin Translations, ed. and trans. Gerrit Bos and Michael McVaugh. Provo, Utah, 2008
Medical writings (1190-1204)On Poisons and Their Antidotes (Kilāb al-Sumūm wa al-Mutaḥarriz min al-Adwiya al-Qitāla)
-Treatise on Poisons and their Antidotes. ed. Suessman Muntner. Philadelphia, 1966
Medical writings (1190-1204)Regimen of Health (Fī Tadbir al-Ṣiḥḥa ) (1198)
-Regimen of Health. trans. A. Bar-Sela, H. E. Hebbel, and E. Faris. Transactions of the American Philosophical Society. New Series, 54 (1964): Part 4
Medical writings (1190-1204)Treatise on Rules Regarding the Practical Part of the Medical Art (Kitāb Qawānīn al-juz’ al-‘amalī min ṣinā‘a al-ṭibb)
- On Rules Regarding the Practical Part of the Medical Art, Arabic text with English translation, ed. Tzvi Langermann, trans. Gerrit Bos. Provo, Utah, 2013Medical writings (1190-1204)On the Cause of Symptoms (Maqāla Fī Bayān al-Aʿrāḍ )
- On the Causes of Symptoms, ed. and trans. J. O. Leibowitz and S. Marcus. Berkeley: University of California Press, 1974.Medical writings (1190-1204)
Commentary
Essays on Maimonides: An Octocentennial Volume
-Essays on Maimonides: An Octocentennial Volume, ed. Salo W. Baron. New York, 1941
Moses Maimonides, Physician and Scientist
-Macht, David S. “Moses Maimonides, Physician and Scientist.” Jews in the Arts and Sciences: Jubilee Volume of the Jewish Academy of Arts and Sciences. ed. Mordecai Soltes. New York, 1954: 107-19.
Biography on Moses MaimonidesMaimonides on Medical Practice
-Leibowitz, J. O. “Maimonides on Medical Practice.” Bulletin of the History of Medicine 31 (1957): 309-17
Galen: Physician as Philosopher: Maimonides: Philosopher as Physician
-Lieber, Elinor. “Galen: Physician as Philosopher: Maimonides: Philosopher as Physician.” Bulletin of the History of Medicine. 53 (1979): 268-85.
Maimonidean Studies Journal
- New York : Michael Scharf Publication Trust of Yeshiva University Press, 1990-The Thought of Moses Maimonides
-The Thought of Moses Maimonides. ed. Lawrence Kaplan, Ira Robinson, and Julien Bauer, Edwin Mellen Press,1991
Abortion and the Emergence of Human Life: Maimonides and the Judaic View
-Goodman, Lenn.“Abortion and the Emergence of Human Life: Maimonides and the Judaic View.” In Bits of Honey: Essays for Samson H, Levey, edited by F. Chyet: 163-190. Atlanta: Scholars Press, 1993
Maimonides on the Synochous Fever
- Langermann, Y. Tzvi. “Maimonides on the Synochous Fever.” Israel Oriental Studies 13 (1993): 175-198.Moses Maimonides the Physician
-Lieber, Elinor. “Moses Maimonides the Physician.” The Medical Works of Maimonides: a Reappraisal. ed. Fred Rosner and Samuel S. Kottek:13-24.
Al-Farabi and Maimonides on Medicine as a Science
-Stroumsa, Sarah. “Al-Farabi and Maimonides on Medicine as a Science.”Arabic Sciences and Philosophy 3 (1993): 235-49.
Moses Maimonides —Physician, Scientist, and Philosopher
- Moses Maimonides: Physician, Scientist, and Philosopher. ed. Samuel Kottek and Fred Rosner, Northvale, NJ. Jason Aronson Inc, 1993Euthanasia
-Rosner, Fred. “Euthanasia.” Contemporary Jewish Ethics and Morality. ed. Elliot N. Dorff & Louis E. Newman: 350-62.
Medicine in the Mishneh Torah of Maimonides
- Rosner, Fred. Medicine in the Mishneh Torah of Maimonides. Northvale, N. J., 1997.On the Mishneh TorahThe Medical Legacy of Moses Maimonides
- Rosner, Fred. The Medical Legacy of Moses Maimonides. Hoboken, N. J., 1998.Medical Encyclopedia of Moses Maimonides
- Rosner, Fred. Medical Encyclopedia of Moses Maimonides. Northvale, N. J. 1998.Maimonides the Medical Humanist
- Lieber, Elinor. “Maimonides the Medical Humanist.” Maimonidean Studies 4 (2000): 39-60.Medicine versus Religion in the Works of Maimonides
-Lieber, Elinor. “Medicine versus Religion in the Works of Maimonides.” Oriente Moderno 19 (2000): 577-590.
Maimonides and His Heritage
-Maimonides and His Heritage. ed. Idit Dobbs-Weinstein, Lenn Goodman, and James Allen Grady, S U N Y press, Series in Jewish Philosophy, 2009
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 Maimonides