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
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 PerplexedIsma’ili Theology and Maimonides’ Philosophy
-Ivry, Alfred L. “Isma’ili Theology and Maimonides’ Philosophy.” The Jews of Medieval Islam: Community, Society, and Identity. ed. D. Frank: 271-300. Izutsu, Toshihiko. Ethico-Religious Concepts in the Qur’Án. Montreal, 1966.
on The Guide of the PerplexedThe Collected Works of Shlomo Pines
- Pines, Shlomo. The Collected Works of Shlomo Pines. 5 vols. Jerusalem, 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
Perspectives on Maimonides: Philosophical and Historical Studies
-Perspectives on Maimonides: Philosophical and Historical Studies. ed. Joel L. Kraemer Oxford, 1991.
Neoplatonism and Jewish Thought
-Neoplatonism and Jewish Thought. ed. Lenn Goodman. Albany : State University of New York Press, c1992
Jew and Philosopher: The Return to Maimonides in the Jewish Thought of Leo Strauss
- Green, Kenneth Hart. Jew and Philosopher: The Return to Maimonides in the Jewish Thought of Leo Strauss. Albany, N.Y., 1993.on The Guide of the PerplexedNeoplatonic Currents in Maimonides’ Thought
-Ivry, Alfred L. “Neoplatonic Currents in Maimonides’ Thought” Perspectives on Maimonides. ed. Joel L. Kraemer:115-40.
on The Guide of the PerplexedMaimonides’ Opposition to Astrology: Critical Survey and Neoplatonic Response
-Pessin, Sarah. “Maimonides’ Opposition to Astrology: Critical Survey and Neoplatonic Response.” Al-Masaq: Islam and the Medieval Mediterranean 13 (2001): 25-41.
The Cambridge Companion to Medieval Jewish Philosophy
- The Cambridge Companion to Medieval Jewish Philosophy. ed. Daniel H. Frank and Oliver Leaman. Cambridge, 2003.The Influence of Islamic Thought on Maimonides
-Pessin, Sarah. “The Influence of Islamic Thought on Maimonides.” Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy.
On The Guide of the PerplexedThe Cambridge Companion to Maimonides
-The Cambridge Companion to Maimonides. Ed. Kenneth Seeskin. Cambridge University Press, Illinois, 2005
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… MoreOn 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.