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In defence of Judaism: Abraham Ibn Daud : sources and structures of ha-Emunah ha-Ramah
- Title
- In defence of Judaism: Abraham Ibn Daud : sources and structures of ha-Emunah ha-Ramah / T.A.M. Fontaine.
- Author
- Fontaine, Resianne, 1953-
- Publication
- Assen/Maastricht, the Netherlands : Van Gorcum, 1990.
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- Description
- 334 p.; 24 cm.
- Summary
- This study presents a thematic investigation of Ibn Daud's philosophical treatise ha-Emunah ha-Ramah [The Exalted Faith]. It examines the question whether current interpretation is correct in assuming that the thesis is primarily concerned with working out a synthesis between philosophy and religion, or whether, as Ibn Daud indicates at te beginning of the book, it is basically concerned with the problem of free will. In order to answer this question the author examines the structure of Ibn Daud's philosophical work by analysing its topics and their interrelation, and by paying attention to Ibn Daud's use of Biblical verses. Furthermore the study focuses on the Jewish and Islamic sources on which Ibn Daud drew, as well as the way in which he incorporated the philosophy of the Islamic Aristotelians al-Farabi and Ibn Sina into his own thought.
- Series Statement
- Studia Semitica Neerlandica ; 26
- Uniform Title
- Vergeten denker, Abraham Ibn Daud. English
- Studia Semitica Neerlandica ; 26.
- Alternative Title
- Vergeten denker, Abraham Ibn Daud.
- Subject
- Note
- Translation of: Een vergeten denker, Abraham Ibn Daud : een onderzoek naar de bronnen en de structuur van "ha-Emunah ha-Ramah".
- Bibliography (note)
- Includes bibliographical references.
- Contents
- Ibn Daud's motivation -- Substance and accident: the categories -- Matter and form -- Motion and infinity -- The soul -- God and his attributes -- The heavenly spheres and the intelligences -- Prophecy -- The degrees of providence -- The freedom of the will -- Ethics -- Recapitulation and conclusions.
- ISBN
- 9789023224044
- 9023224043
- LCCN
- 2008374434
- OCLC
- ocm21922169
- 21922169
- SCSB-9464902
- Owning Institutions
- Princeton University Library