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The present volume explores how and why Averroes, a Muslim philosopher and jurist, became one of the most important figures in the history of Jewish philosophy.
Contents
Foreword
Notes on Contributors
Part 1
What Is Jewish Averroism?
1
Was al-Ġazālī an Avicennist? Some Provocative Reflections on Jewish Averroism
2
How a Rehabilitated Notion of Latin Averroism Could Help in Understanding Jewish Averroism
Part 2
The Maimonides/Averroes Complex
3
Is Maimonides’s Biblical Exegesis Averroistic?
4 Averroes and Ğābir ibn Aflaḥ among the Jews:
New Interpretations for Joseph ben Judah ibn Simon’s Allegorical Correspondence with Maimonides
5
The Garden of Eden and the Scope of Human Knowledge: Maimonides, Falaquera, and Nissim of Marseille
6
The Role of Averroes’s Tahāfut in Narboni’s Commentary on the Guide
Part 3
Averroes in Jewish Religious Discourse
7
Averroism, the Jewish-Christian Debate, and Mass Conversions in Iberia
8
Double Truth in the Writings of Medieval Jewish Averroists: An Esoteric Way of Appealing to Both Sceptics and Non-sceptics
9
Averroes’s Influence upon Theological Responses to Scepticism in Late Medieval Jewish Philosophy
Part 4 Jewish Authors Doing Philosophy with (and about) Averroes
10
Love and Hate May Lead Astray: Moses Halevi’s Rejection of Averroes
11
Averroism in Judah ha-Cohen’s Midraš ha-ḥokhmah?
12
Falaquera the Averroist
13
The Necessary Existent, Simplicity, and Incorporeality: An Anti-Avicennian-Averroist Approach
14
Gersonides and Kaspi on the Uncertainty of the Future and the Practical Intellect
15
Rabbi Moses ben Judah (Rambi) as an Averroist
16
Crescas’s Attitude toward Averroes
17
Matter and Elements: Al-Ġazālī and Averroes as a Source of Isaac Abravanel’s “The Forms of the Elements”
Part 5
Averroes in Hebrew and from Hebrew
18
Choking on Water, the Stratification of Society, and the Death of Socrates in the Hebrew Averroes
19
Ṭodros Ṭodrosi’s accessus ad auctorem: A Hebrew “Aristotelian Prologue” to Averroes’s Middle Commentaries on Rhetoric and Poetics
20
Jacob Mantino and the Alleged Second Latin Translation of Averroes’s Long Commentary on On the Soul 3.5 and 3.36
Index
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