Arabic Beyond the Arabs
Maimonides and the Guide of the Perplexed
ابن ميمون و«دلالة الحائرين»
Moses Maimonides of Córdoba (1138–1204) was born in Córdoba, lived in Fez and then in Cairo as a physician in Saladin's state. He wrote his most famous book, «The Guide of the Perplexed», in Arabic, seeking to reconcile reason and faith, and other treatises in Arabic that Pérès names. The Guide was translated into Hebrew and then Latin, and Europe's philosophers read it.
- In brief
- The greatest Jewish philosopher of the Middle Ages wrote his major books in Arabic
- Outside Arabic
- Dux perplexorum
«ولا سيّما "مرشد الضالّين" (Guide des Egarés) الذي هو حقيقةً موسوعةٌ فقهيّةٌ فلسفيّة للملّة اليهوديّة يحاول فيها أن يوافق بين العقل والإيمان.»
«Murshid al-ḍāllīn» is Pérès rendering the French title; the Arabic title is Dalālat al-ḥāʾirīn, written in Arabic in Hebrew letters. His life and the translations are not in the lecture.
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Sources
- هنري بيريس، مجلّة المجمع العلميّ العربيّ ١٩/٩ (١٩٤٤م)، ص٤٠٤
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