Averroes and Averroism in Medieval Jewish Thought

Erscheinungsjahr 2024
ISBN: 978-90-04-67948-1
Verlag: Brill

Buch, Englisch, Band 4, 444 Seiten, Format (B × H): 155 mm x 235 mm, Gewicht: 897 g

Reihe: Maimonides Library for Philosophy and Religion

The 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.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Weitere Mitwirkende

Haliva, Racheli

Meyrav, Yoav

Davies, Daniel

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Weltgeschichte & Geschichte einzelner Länder und Gebietsräume Europäische Geschichte
• Geisteswissenschaften Philosophie Geschichte der Westlichen Philosophie Mittelalterliche & Scholastische Philosophie
• Geisteswissenschaften Jüdische Studien Jüdische Studien Jüdische Studien: Philosophie, Aufklärung, Wissenschaften

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Contents

Foreword

Racheli Haliva, Daniel Davies and Yoav Meyrav

Notes on Contributors

Part 1: What Is Jewish Averroism?

1 Was al-Gazali 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 Gabir ibn Aflah 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 Tahafut 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-hokhmah?

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-Gazali 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 Todros Todrosi’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

Über Autor(innen)

Racheli Haliva (PhD 2016, McGill) is associate professor of Jewish studies at Shandong University’s Center for Judaic and Inter-Religious Studies and a former co-director of the Maimonides Centre for Advanced Studies at Universität Hamburg. She works on the history of medieval Jewish philosophy and the relationship between Jews and Jewish converts in the Middle Ages.

Yoav Meyrav (PhD 2017, Tel Aviv) is the principal investigator of the ERC-funded HEPMASITE (Hebrew Philosophical Manuscripts as Sites of Engagement) project at Universität Hamburg and a former research associate at the Maimonides Centre for Advanced Studies. He has published on ancient, Arabic, and Jewish philosophy, Hebrew philology, and the history of metaphysics.

Daniel Davies (PhD 2007, Cambridge) has worked for the Taylor-Schechter Genizah Research Unit at the Cambridge University Library and on the “PESHAT in Context” project at Universität Hamburg. He focuses on medieval philosophy and philosophy of religion. His publications include Method and Metaphysics in Maimonides’ Guide for the Perplexed, which received an honourable mention from the Jordan Schnitzer Book Awards. His second book on Maimonides will be published by Polity in 2023.