“Therefore I Have Removed the Veil”: Disclosure of Secrets in Eleventh-Century Islam and the Literary Character of Maimonides’s Guide
This article investigates Maimonides’s ethos of disclosing “secrets” and explores its Islamic origins, focusing on sources neglected by earlier scholarship concerning the Guide of the Perplexed. I turn from the prevalent method by which the Guide has been studied for decades, namely, as a work at th...
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| Format: | Electronic Article |
| Language: | English |
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Cambridge Univ. Press
[2020]
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Harvard theological review
Year: 2020, Volume: 113, Issue: 3, Pages: 378-404 |
| Standardized Subjects / Keyword chains: | B
Maimonides, Moses 1135-1204, Dalālat al-ḥāʾirīn
/ Esotericism
/ Model
/ Islam
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| RelBib Classification: | AX Inter-religious relations BH Judaism BJ Islam KAE Church history 900-1300; high Middle Ages |
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Maimonides
B al-Fārābī B crisis discourse B Esotericism B Leo Strauss B Transgression B al-Ghazālī B Ibn Sīnā |
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