While the great medieval philosopher, theologian, and physician Maimonides is acknowledged as a leading Jewish thinker, his intellectual contacts with his surrounding world are often described as rela
The study of the ninth century AD thinkers pivots on two paradoxes: though contemporaries considered them among the brightest intellects of their time and they devoted considerable time to religion, h
In this book the development of Islamic freethinking is analyzed against the background of the significance of prophets in Islam. The author examines the image of freethinkers and the repercussions of
An integrative approach to Jewish and Muslim philosophy in al-AndalusAl-Andalus, the Iberian territory ruled by Islam from the eighth to the fifteenth centuries, was home to a flourishing philosophica
While the great medieval philosopher, theologian, and physician Maimonides is acknowledged as a leading Jewish thinker, his intellectual contacts with his surrounding world are often described as rela
The literary works of ninth-century scholar Dawud al-Muqammas, who converted from Judaism to Christianity and then back to Judaism, reflect his pioneering approaches during a formative time in Jewish
