Maimonides' Empire of Light: Popular Enlightenment in an Age of Belief.(Book Review)

From: The Journal of the American Oriental Society | Date: October 1, 2002| Author: | Copyright information

By RALPH LERNER, Chicago: UNIVERSITY OF CHICAGO PRESS, 2000, Pp. 221, $35.

Maimonides (1135-1204) a figure of enlightenment? Well, not exactly in the sense of the eighteenth-century Enlighteners, but as a popular instructor who brought "some basic notions of philosophy within the ken of ordinary men and women"(p. 11). It is Maimonides' educational work addressed to a popular readership that Ralph Lerner interprets in a 95-page monograph followed by 109 pages of English translations. The writings discussed are the "Epistle to Yemen," the "Mishneh Torah," the "Treatise on ...

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