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Book SynopsisThe Andalusian Muslim philosopher Averroes (1126–1198) is known for his authoritative commentaries on Aristotle and for his challenging ideas about the relationship between philosophy and religion, and the place of religion in society. Among Jewish authors, he found many admirers and just as many harsh critics. This volume brings together, for the first time, essays investigating Averroes’s complex reception, in different philosophical topics and among several Jewish authors, with special attention to its relation to the reception of Maimonides.
Table of ContentsContents Foreword Racheli Haliva, Daniel Davies and Yoav Meyrav Notes on Contributors Part 1: What Is Jewish Averroism? 1 Was al-Ġazālī an Avicennist? Some Provocative Reflections on Jewish Averroism Steven Harvey 2 How a Rehabilitated Notion of Latin Averroism Could Help in Understanding Jewish Averroism Giovanni Licata Part 2: The Maimonides/Averroes Complex 3 Is Maimonides’s Biblical Exegesis Averroistic? Mercedes Rubio 4 Averroes and Ğābir ibn Aflaḥ among the Jews: New Interpretations for Joseph ben Judah ibn Simon’s Allegorical Correspondence with Maimonides Reimund Leicht 5 The Garden of Eden and the Scope of Human Knowledge: Maimonides, Falaquera and Nissim of Marseille David Lemler 6 The Role of Averroes’s Tahāfut in Narboni’s Commentary on the Guide Yonatan Shemesh Part 3: Averroes in Jewish Religious Discourse 7 Averroism, the Jewish-Christian Debate, and Mass Conversions in Iberia Daniel J. Lasker 8 Double Truth in the Writings of Medieval Jewish Averroists: An Esoteric Way of Appealing to Both Sceptics and Non-sceptics Shalom Sadik 9 Averroes’s Influence upon Theological Responses to Scepticism in Late Medieval Jewish Philosophy Shira Weiss Part 4: Jewish Authors Doing Philosophy with (and about) Averroes 10 Love and Hate May Lead Astray: Moses Halevi’s Rejection of Averroes Yoav Meyrav 11 Averroism in Judah ha-Cohen’s Midraš ha-ḥokhmah? Resianne Fontaine 12 Falaquera the Averroist Yair Shiffman 13 The Necessary Existent, Simplicity, and Incorporeality: An Anti-Avicennian-Averroist Approach Bakinaz Abdalla 14 Gersonides and Kaspi on the Uncertainty of the Future and the Practical Intellect Alexander Green 15 Rabbi Moses ben Judah (Rambi) as an Averroist Esti Eisenmann 16 Crescas’s Attitude toward Averroes Warren Zev Harvey 17 Matter and Elements: Al-Ġazālī and Averroes as a Source of Isaac Abravanel’s “The Forms of the Elements” Elisa Coda 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 Yehuda Halper 19 Ṭodros Ṭodrosi’s accessus ad auctorem: A Hebrew “Aristotelian Prologue” to Averroes’s Middle Commentaries on Rhetoric and Poetics Francesca Gorgoni 20 Jacob Mantino and the Alleged Second Latin Translation of Averroes’s Long Commentary on On the Soul 3.5 and 3.36 Michael Engel Index
