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Author Kraemer, Joel L.

Title Maimonides : the life and world of one of civilization's greatest minds / Joel L. Kraemer.

Publication Info. New York : Doubleday, [2008]
©2008

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Location Call No. Status
 Avon Free Public Library - Adult Department  92 MAIMONIDES    Check Shelf
 West Hartford, Noah Webster Library - Biographies  B MAIMONIDES K    Check Shelf
Edition First edition.
Description xvi, 621 pages ; 25 cm
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (pages [484]-596) and index.
Contents Andalusia -- Córdoba -- Andalusian Jewish culture -- Early studies -- Early writings -- Fez to Acre -- Refuge in Fez -- Martyrdom or survival -- Did Maimonides convert to Islam? -- The beautiful land -- Egypt: the early years -- Stranger in a foreign land -- Commentary on the Mishnah -- Saladin and the Ayyubids -- The great Rav in Israel -- Epistle to Yemen -- Moses and David -- Egypt: the middle years -- Zuta the wicked -- Communal affairs -- Responsa -- Mishneh Torah -- Egypt: the late years -- The guide of the perplexed -- The treatise on resurrection -- Epistle on astrology and lunel correspondence -- The physician.
Subject Maimonides, Moses, 1135-1204.
Rabbis -- Egypt -- Biography.
Jewish philosophers -- Egypt -- Biography.
Rabbis -- Spain -- Biography.
Jewish scholars -- Spain -- Biography.
ISBN 9780385511995 alkaline paper $35.00
038551199X alkaline paper
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