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After Revelation: The Rabbinic Past in the Medieval Islamic World Marc Herman 9781512827781
RRP: $67.08Booksplease Price: $55.50Reveals how medieval Jews developed religious law through contact with their Muslim neighbors After Revelation is the first study to integrate Jewish legal thought in the medieval Islamic world into... -
Exiles in Sepharad: The Jewish Millennium in Spain by Jeffrey Gorsky 9780827612518
Booksplease Price: $30.51The dramatic one-thousand-year history of Jews in Spain comes to life in Exiles in Sepharad. Jeffrey Gorsky vividly relates this colorful period of Jewish history, from the era when Jewish culture... -
The Jews in Medieval Egypt by Miriam Frenkel 9781618117465
RRP: $124.49Booksplease Price: $88.97Jews lived in Egypt over many centuries, from biblical times until the middle of the previous century. Nevertheless, Jewish life in medieval Islamic Egypt was for many years an obscure and... -
Routledge Companion to Philosophy of Religion Chad Meister 9780415782951
RRP: $86.42Booksplease Price: $81.77The Routledge Companion to Philosophy of Religion, Second edition is an indispensable guide and reference source to the major themes, movements, debates and topics in philosophy of religion... -
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Maimonides and the Book That Changed Judaism: Secrets of "The Guide for the Perplexed" by Micah Goodman 9780827612105
RRP: $36.11Booksplease Price: $30.13With his characteristic skill and insight, Micah Goodman guides us through the beauty of Jewish philosophy, uplifting us from perplexity to enlightenment.-Shimon Peres, former president of the State... -
The Jews in Medieval Egypt by Miriam Frenkel 9781618117472
RRP: $36.77Booksplease Price: $23.68Jews lived in Egypt over many centuries, from biblical times until the middle of the previous century. Nevertheless, Jewish life in medieval Islamic Egypt was for many years an obscure and... -
Islamic Mysticism and Abu Talib Al-Makki: The Role of the Heart Saeko Yazaki 9781138118706
RRP: $63.20Booksplease Price: $58.86Both in everyday language and religious metaphor, the heart often embodies the true self and is considered to be the seat of emotion in many cultures. Many Muslim thinkers have attempted to clarify... -
Medieval Philosophy and the Classical Tradition: In Islam, Judaism and Christianity John Inglis 9780415849500
RRP: $63.20Booksplease Price: $58.86An initial chapter on the history of Islamic philosophy sets the stage for sixteen articles on issues across the three traditions. The goal is to see the Islamic tradition in its own richness and... -
Sufism and Jewish-Muslim Relations: The Derekh Avraham Order in Israel Yafia Katherine Randall (University of Winchester, UK) 9780367872540
RRP: $58.04Booksplease Price: $54.49In Israel there are Jews and Muslims who practice Sufism together. The Sufi' activities that they take part in together create pathways of engagement between two faith traditions in a geographical... -
Philosophic Classics, Volume II: Medieval and Renaissance Philosophy Forrest E. Baird 9780205783908
RRP: $161.25Booksplease Price: $135.84Esteemed for providing the best available translations, Philosophic Classics: Ancient Philosophy, features complete works or complete sections of the most important works by the major thinkers, as... -
Medieval Jewish Philosophy: An Introduction by Lavinia Cohn-Sherbok
RRP: $60.62Booksplease Price: $56.68Beginning with the earliest philosopher of the Middle Ages, Saadiah ben Joseph al-Fayyumi, this work surveys the writings of such figures as Solomon ben Joseph ibn Gabirol, Bahya ben Joseph ibn... -
Mary Douglas's Purity and Danger: An analysis of the concepts of pollution and taboo by Padraig Belton
RRP: $25.79Booksplease Price: $24.17Mary Douglas is an outstanding example of an evaluative thinker at work. In Purity and Danger: An Analysis of Concepts of Pollution and Taboo, she delves in great detail into existing arguments that... -
An Analysis of Mary Douglas's Purity and Danger: An Analysis of the Concepts of Pollution and Taboo Padraig Belton 9781912284634
Booksplease Price: $8.62Mary Douglas is an outstanding example of an evaluative thinker at work. In Purity and Danger: An Analysis of Concepts of Pollution and Taboo, she delves in great detail into existing arguments that... -
Interpreting Maimonides: Studies in Methodology, Metaphysics, and Moral Philosophy Marvin Fox 9780226259420
Booksplease Price: $39.25In this comprehensive study, Marvin Fox offers an approach to Moses Maimonides that illuminates the intersections of his philosophical, religious, and Jewish visions--ideas that have embattled... -
Aristotle and Early Christian Thought Mark Edwards 9781032093604
RRP: $59.33Booksplease Price: $55.57In studies of early Christian thought, 'philosophy' is often a synonym for 'Platonism', or at most for 'Platonism and Stoicism'. Nevertheless, it was Aristotle who, from the sixth century AD to the... -
Preparing Your Heart for the High Holy Days: A Guided Journal by Kerry M. Olitzky 9780827605787
RRP: $15.47Booksplease Price: $13.09This spiritual guided journal will help you prepare your heart and soul for the Jewish New Year.Reviews"In these splendid and heartfelt meditations, rabbis Olitzky and Sabbath weave a colorful... -
Slavery and the Jews of Medieval Egypt: A History by Craig Perry 9780691263571
RRP: $49.02Booksplease Price: $40.38A new global history of the slave trade, the lives of enslaved people, and the role of slavery in the formation of Jewish and Arab-Islamic culture in the medieval Middle EastIn this book, Craig Perry... -
Maimonides and the Shaping of the Jewish Canon by James A. Diamond 9781107636378
Booksplease Price: $41.43Jewish thought since the Middle Ages can be regarded as a sustained dialogue with Moses Maimonides, regardless of the different social, cultural, and intellectual environments in which it was... -
The Three Rings: Textual Studies in the Historical Trialogue of Judaism, Christianity, and Islam by P. Valkenberg 9789042915633
Booksplease Price: $57.20In history, Judaism, Christianity and Islam have been both partners and rivals. The well-known parable of the three rings argues in a beautiful paradox how the religion most beloved by the other two... -
Two Models of Jewish Philosophy: Justifying One's Practices by Daniel Rynhold 9780199274864
Booksplease Price: $103.99In a work that illustrates how Jewish philosophy can make a genuine contribution to general philosophical debate, Daniel Rynhold attempts to formulate a model for the justification of practices by... -
Medieval Jewish Philosophical Writings by Charles H. Manekin 9780521549516
RRP: $39.99Booksplease Price: $39.25Medieval Jewish intellectuals living in Muslim and Christian lands were strongly concerned to recover what they regarded as a 'lost' Jewish philosophical tradition. As part of this project they... -
A Glimpse into Medical Practice among Jews around 1500: Latin-German Pharmaceutical Glossaries in Hebrew Characters extant in Ms Leiden Universiteitsbibliotheek, Cod. Or. 4732/1 (SCAL 15), fols. 1a–17b by Gerrit Bos
Booksplease Price: $123.44With A Glimpse into Medical Practice among Jews around 1500: Latin-German Pharmaceutical Glossaries in Hebrew Characters extant in Ms Leiden, Universiteitsbibliotheek, Cod. Or. 4732/1 (SCAL 15), fols... -
Maimonides and Jewish Theocracy: The Human Hand of Divine Rule Charles H. T. Lesch 9781108793421
RRP: $23.22Booksplease Price: $21.31Theocratic movements are on the rise. But what does it actually mean for God to rule? This Element offers one answer by recovering the theocratic project of medieval Judaism's most important thinker,... -
Studies in Platonic Political Philosophy Leo Strauss 9780226777009
Booksplease Price: $44.09One of the outstanding thinkers of our time offers in this book his final words to posterity. Studies in Platonic Political Philosophy was well underway at the time of Leo Strauss's death in 1973... -
Maimonides' Guide of the Perplexed: A Critical Guide by Daniel Frank
RRP: $100.62Booksplease Price: $96.66Moses Maimonides' Guide of the Perplexed (c. 1190) is the greatest and most influential text in the history of Jewish philosophy. Controversial in its day, the Guide directly influenced Aquinas,... -
Jewish Messianism and the History of Philosophy by Martin Kavka 9780521104630
RRP: $54.18Booksplease Price: $52.86Jewish Messianism and the History of Philosophy contests the ancient opposition between Athens and Jerusalem by retrieving the concept of meontology - the doctrine of nonbeing - from the Jewish... -
Interpreting Maimonides: Critical Essays by Charles H. Manekin 9781107184190
RRP: $121.26Booksplease Price: $115.70Moses Maimonides (1138-1204) was arguably the single most important Jewish thinker of the Middle Ages, with an impact on the later Jewish tradition that was unparalleled by any of his contemporaries... -
Becoming What We Are: Classical and Christian Readings of Modernity by Jude P. Dougherty 9780813236612
RRP: $29.66Booksplease Price: $26.26Becoming What We Are is a collection of essays and reviews written in the last decade by the late Jude Dougherty, which covey a perspective on contemporary events and literature, written from a... -
Maimonides' Guide of the Perplexed: A Critical Guide by Daniel Frank 9781108727600
Booksplease Price: $32.30Moses Maimonides' Guide of the Perplexed (c. 1190) is the greatest and most influential text in the history of Jewish philosophy. Controversial in its day, the Guide directly influenced Aquinas,... -
Happiness in Premodern Judaism: Virtue, Knowledge, and Well-Being by Hava Tirosh-Samuelson 9780878204533
Booksplease Price: $55.44It is not common to think that Jews were interested in happiness or that Judaism has anything to say about happiness. On the contrary, the concept of happiness was a central concern of Jewish... -
![Maimonides' "guide of the Perplexed" in Translation: A History from the Thirteenth Century to the Twentieth by Josef Stern](https://cdn11.bigcommerce.com/s-zkx5lhzlf8/images/stencil/444x444/products/812231/811942/9780226457635__71540.1687663363.jpg?c=1 "Maimonides' "guide of the Perplexed" in Translation: A History from the Thirteenth Century to the Twentieth by Josef Stern")
Maimonides' "guide of the Perplexed" in Translation: A History from the Thirteenth Century to the Twentieth by Josef Stern
RRP: $61.92Booksplease Price: $53.66Moses Maimonides's Guide of the Perplexed is the greatest philosophical text in the history of Jewish thought and a major work of the Middle Ages. For almost all of its history, however, the Guide... -
Jewish Messianism and the History of Philosophy by Martin Kavka 9780521831031
RRP: $121.26Booksplease Price: $115.70Jewish Messianism and the History of Philosophy contests the ancient opposition between Athens and Jerusalem by retrieving the concept of meontology - the doctrine of nonbeing - from the Jewish... -
Routledge Handbook of Jewish Ritual and Practice by Oliver Leaman 9781032271996
RRP: $60.62Booksplease Price: $57.71Ritual and practice are some of the most defining features of religion, linked with its central beliefs. Discussing the wide range of Jewish ritual and practice, this volume provides a contemporary... -
Maimonides' Moral Psychology: The Emotions, The Virtues, and The Good Life Alexander Green 9780197806937
RRP: $87.72Booksplease Price: $80.82Moses Maimonides is undoubtedly the most famous rationalist of the Jewish tradition, portraying all of Torah as an intellectual project to know the deepest secrets of God and nature. This book,... -
Maimonides After 800 Years: Essays on Maimonides and His Influence by Jay M. Harris
RRP: $70.89Booksplease Price: $58.44Moses Maimonides was the most significant Jewish thinker, jurist, and doctor of the Middle Ages. Author of both a monumental code of Jewish law and the most influential and controversial work of... -
Medievalia et Humanistica, No. 49: Studies in Medieval and Renaissance Culture: New Series by Reinhold F. Glei 9781538191743
Booksplease Price: $99.81Since its founding in 1943, Medievalia et Humanistica has won worldwide recognition as the first scholarly publication in America to devote itself entirely to medieval and Renaissance studies. Since... -
The Rule of Peshat: Jewish Constructions of the Plain Sense of Scripture and Their Christian and Muslim Contexts, 900-1270 by Mordechai Z. Cohen 9780812252125
RRP: $113.52Booksplease Price: $92.16Within the rich tradition of Jewish biblical interpretation, few concepts are as vital as peshat, often rendered as the "plain sense" of Scripture. Generally contrasted with midrash-the creative and... -
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Maimonides on the "Decline of the Generations" and the Nature of Rabbinic Authority by Menachem Kellner 9780791429228
Booksplease Price: $31.41Moses Maimonides, medieval Judaism's leading legist and philosopher, and a figure of central importance for contemporary Jewish self-understanding, held a view of Judaism which maintained the... -
Thinking Through Revelation: Islamic, Jewish, and Christian Philosophy in the Middle Ages by Robert J. Dobie 9780813231334
RRP: $34.82Booksplease Price: $29.94Navigating the seemingly competing claims of human reason and divine revelation to truth is without a doubt one of the central problems of medieval philosophy. Medieval thinkers argued a whole gamut... -
Maimonides and His Heritage by Idit Dobbs-Weinstein 9780791476567
Booksplease Price: $32.95This volume celebrates the depth and breadth of Jewish philosopher Moses Maimonides' (1138-1204) achievements. The essays gathered here explore the rich diversity of a heritage that extends over...