The Medical Legacy of Moses Maimonides
Author | : Fred Rosner |
Publisher | : KTAV Publishing House, Inc. |
Total Pages | : 324 |
Release | : 1998 |
ISBN-10 | : 0881255734 |
ISBN-13 | : 9780881255737 |
Rating | : 4/5 (34 Downloads) |
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Author | : Fred Rosner |
Publisher | : KTAV Publishing House, Inc. |
Total Pages | : 324 |
Release | : 1998 |
ISBN-10 | : 0881255734 |
ISBN-13 | : 9780881255737 |
Rating | : 4/5 (34 Downloads) |
Author | : David Bakan |
Publisher | : State University of New York Press |
Total Pages | : 211 |
Release | : 2010-07-02 |
ISBN-10 | : 9781438427447 |
ISBN-13 | : 1438427441 |
Rating | : 4/5 (47 Downloads) |
Explores the unacknowledged psychological element in Maimonides’ work, one which prefigures the latter insights of Freud.
Author | : Kenneth Seeskin |
Publisher | : Oxford University Press |
Total Pages | : 265 |
Release | : 2000-01-13 |
ISBN-10 | : 9780195344080 |
ISBN-13 | : 0195344081 |
Rating | : 4/5 (80 Downloads) |
Monotheism is usually considered Judaism's greatest contribution to world culture, but it is far from clear what monotheism is. This work examines the notion that monotheism is not so much a claim about the number of God as a claim about the nature of God. Seeskin argues that the idea of a God who is separate from his creation and unique is not just an abstraction but a suitable basis for worship. He examines this conclusion in the contexts of prayer, creation, sabbath observance, repentance, religious freedom, and love of God. Maimonides plays a central role in the argument both because of his importance to Jewish self-understanding and because he deals with the question of how philosophic ideas are embodied in religious ritual.
Author | : Herbert Davidson |
Publisher | : Oxford University Press |
Total Pages | : 578 |
Release | : 2004-12-09 |
ISBN-10 | : 9780195343618 |
ISBN-13 | : 0195343611 |
Rating | : 4/5 (18 Downloads) |
Moses Maimonides (1137/38-1204), scholar, physician, and philosopher, was the most influential Jewish thinker of the Middle Ages. In this magisterial biography, Herbert Davidson provides an exhaustive guide to Maimonides' life and works. After considering Maimonides' upbringing and education, Davidson expounds all of his many writings in exhaustive detail, with separate chapters on rabbinic, philosophical, and medical texts. Moses Maimonides has been recognized as the standard work on a towering figure of Western intellectual history.
Author | : Helaine Selin |
Publisher | : Springer Science & Business Media |
Total Pages | : 2428 |
Release | : 2008-03-12 |
ISBN-10 | : 9781402045592 |
ISBN-13 | : 140204559X |
Rating | : 4/5 (92 Downloads) |
Here, at last, is the massively updated and augmented second edition of this landmark encyclopedia. It contains approximately 1000 entries dealing in depth with the history of the scientific, technological and medical accomplishments of cultures outside of the United States and Europe. The entries consist of fully updated articles together with hundreds of entirely new topics. This unique reference work includes intercultural articles on broad topics such as mathematics and astronomy as well as thoughtful philosophical articles on concepts and ideas related to the study of non-Western Science, such as rationality, objectivity, and method. You’ll also find material on religion and science, East and West, and magic and science.
Author | : Joel L. Kraemer |
Publisher | : Doubleday Religion |
Total Pages | : 642 |
Release | : 2010-02-09 |
ISBN-10 | : 9780385512008 |
ISBN-13 | : 0385512007 |
Rating | : 4/5 (08 Downloads) |
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 man’s life against the background of the social, religious, and political issues of his time. Maimonides was born in Córdoba, in Muslim-ruled Spain, in 1138 and died in Cairo in 1204. He lived in an Arab-Islamic environment from his early years in Spain and North Africa to his later years in Egypt, where he was immersed in its culture and society. His life, career, and writings are the highest expression of the intertwined worlds of Judaism and Islam. Maimonides lived in tumultuous times, at the peak of the Reconquista in Spain and the Crusades in Palestine. His monumental compendium of Jewish law, the Mishneh Torah, became a basis of all subsequent Jewish legal codes and brought him recognition as one of the foremost lawgivers of humankind. In Egypt, his training as a physician earned him a place in the entourage of the great Sultan Saladin, and he wrote medical works in Arabic that were translated into Hebrew and Latin and studied for centuries in Europe. As a philosopher and scientist, he contributed to mathematics and astronomy, logic and ethics, politics and theology. His Guide of the Perplexed, a masterful interweaving of religious tradition and scientific and philosophic thought, influenced generations of Christian, Muslim, and Jewish thinkers. Now, in a dazzling work of scholarship, Joel Kraemer tells the complete story of Maimonides’ rich life. MAIMONIDES is at once a portrait of a great historical figure and an excursion into the Mediterranean world of the twelfth century. Joel Kraemer draws on a wealth of original sources to re-create a remarkable period in history when Jewish, Christian, and Muslim traditions clashed and mingled in a setting alive with intense intellectual exchange and religious conflict.
Author | : Christopher Lowney |
Publisher | : Simon and Schuster |
Total Pages | : 371 |
Release | : 2012-12-04 |
ISBN-10 | : 9780743282611 |
ISBN-13 | : 0743282612 |
Rating | : 4/5 (11 Downloads) |
In a world troubled by religious strife and division, Chris Lowney's vividly written book offers a hopeful historical reminder: Muslims, Christians, and Jews once lived together in Spain, creating a centuries-long flowering of commerce, culture, art, and architecture. In 711, a ragtag army of Muslim North Africans conquered Christian Spain and launched Western Europe's first Islamic state. In 1492, Ferdinand and Isabella vanquished Spain's last Muslim kingdom, forced Jews to convert or emigrate, and dispatched Christopher Columbus to the New World. In the years between, Spain's Muslims, Christians, and Jews forged a golden age for each faith and distanced Spain from a Europe mired in the Dark Ages. Medieval Spain's pioneering innovations touched every dimension of Western life: Spaniards introduced Europeans to paper manufacture and to the Hindu-Arabic numerals that supplanted the Roman numeral system. Spain's farmers adopted irrigation technology from the Near East to nurture Europe's first crops of citrus and cotton. Spain's religious scholars authored works that still profoundly influence their respective faiths, from the masterpiece of the Jewish kabbalah to the meditations of Sufism's "greatest master" to the eloquent arguments of Maimonides that humans can successfully marry religious faith and reasoned philosophical inquiry. No less astonishing than medieval Spain's wide-ranging accomplishments was the simple fact its Muslims, Christians, and Jews often managed to live and work side by side, bestowing tolerance and freedom of worship on the religious minorities in their midst. A Vanished World chronicles this impossibly panoramic sweep of human history and achievement, encompassing both the agony of jihad, Crusades, and Inquisition, and the glory of a multicultural civilization that forever changed the West. One gnarled root of today's religious animosities stretches back to medieval Spain, but so does a more nourishing root of much modern religious wisdom.
Author | : Raphael S. Bloch, M.D. |
Publisher | : Xlibris Corporation |
Total Pages | : 791 |
Release | : 2012-05-31 |
ISBN-10 | : 9781469192482 |
ISBN-13 | : 1469192489 |
Rating | : 4/5 (82 Downloads) |
Summary of Healers and Achievers (ID No. 110473) by Raphael S. Bloch, M.D. It is not widely known that throughout history physicians have contributed more than just medical care to civilization. Healers and Achievers is a series of biographies of doctors from ancient Egypt to the twenty-first century who distinguished themselves with lasting non-medical accomplishments. They include the architect of the first Egyptian pyramid, a pope, the "Fathers" of astronomy, geology, magnetism, and taxonomy, American Founding Fathers, French Revolutionaries, a buccaneer, world-class athletes, a spy, and an astronaut. Their life stories are told in the context of the eras in which they lived, and their fields of medical and non-medical expertise are explained in terms comprehensible to both laymen and physicians.
Author | : Catherine Hezser |
Publisher | : BRILL |
Total Pages | : 272 |
Release | : 2023-02-06 |
ISBN-10 | : 9789004541474 |
ISBN-13 | : 9004541470 |
Rating | : 4/5 (74 Downloads) |
Jews and Health: Tradition, History, Practice investigates the value of health in the Jewish tradition and explores Jewish recommendations and practices to maintain and restore health as a state of physical, mental, and spiritual wellbeing.
Author | : Louis R. Caplan |
Publisher | : Cambridge University Press |
Total Pages | : 671 |
Release | : 2022-11-30 |
ISBN-10 | : 9781316516676 |
ISBN-13 | : 1316516679 |
Rating | : 4/5 (76 Downloads) |
This book tells the full story of stroke through the experiences of many who were 'eye' witnesses to this long process.