This authoritative biography of Moses Maimonides, one of the most influential minds in all of human history, illuminates his life as a philosopher, physician, and lawgiver. A biography on a grand scal
Examines the intellectual climate of Islam during the Buyid dynasty of 945-1055 AD, which produced a flowering of philosophical and literary humanism, and a powerful assertion of individuality in the
This authoritative biography of Moses Maimonides, one of the most influential minds in all of human history, illuminates his life as a philosopher, physician, and lawgiver. A biography on a grand scal
As a physician, Maimonides is associated with Hippocrates as a founder of modern medicine; his influence in philosophy is equal to that of Plato, Aristotle, Spinoza, and Kant; in religion, he is as
This festschrift honors a longtime faculty member at the U. of Chicago's Oriental Institute. The listing of publications by Norman (Nahum) Golb (b.1928) cites nine books--the earliest published in 196
