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
Maimonides and Kabbalah
- Idel, Moshe. “Maimonides and Kabbalah.” Studies in Maimonides. ed. Isadore Twersky: 31-81.on The Guide of the PerplexedSitre ‘Arayot in Maimonides’ Thought
-Idel, Moshe. “Sitre ‘Arayot in Maimonides’ Thought.” Maimonides and Philosophy. ed. S. Pines and Y.Yovel: 79-91.
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
Maimonidean Studies Journal
- New York : Michael Scharf Publication Trust of Yeshiva University Press, 1990-Studies in Maimonides
- Studies in Maimonides. ed. Isadore Twersky. Cambridge Mass., 1990.Abulafia’s Secrets of the Guide: a Linguistic Turn
-Idel, Moshe. “Abulafia’s Secrets of the Guide: a Linguistic Turn.” Revue de Métaphysique et de Morale 4 (1998): 495-528.
on The Guide of the PerplexedHomo Mysticus: a Guide to Maimonides’ Guide for the Perplexed
- Faur, J . Homo Mysticus: a Guide to Maimonides’ Guide for the Perplexed. Syracuse, 1999.on The Guide of the PerplexedMaimonides’ Guide of the Perplexed and the Kabbalah
-Idel, Moshe. “Maimonides’ Guide of the Perplexed and the Kabbalah.” Jewish History 18 (2004): 197-226.
on The Guide of the PerplexedMaimonides’ Confrontation with Mysticism
-Kellner, Menachem. Maimonides’ Confrontation with Mysticism. Oxford & Portland, Or., 2006.
On The Guide of the PerplexedMaimonides 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