The Spiritual Path to Celestial Symphony: Rambam, Abraham Ben Moses Ben Maimon, Moses Ben Shem Tov De Leon, Abū Sa‘īd Al-kharrāz
The Spiritual Path to Celestial Symphony: Rambam, Abraham Ben Moses Ben Maimon, Moses Ben Shem Tov De Leon, Abū Sa‘īd Al-kharrāz
Author(s): Silviu LupaşcuSubject(s): Philosophy, Jewish studies, History of Philosophy, Non-European Philosophy, Theology and Religion, Islam studies, Jewish Thought and Philosophy, Ancient Philosphy, Philosophy of Middle Ages, Middle-East Philosophy, History of Islam, History of Religion
Published by: Muzeul de Istorie „Paul Păltănea” Galaţi
Keywords: Moses ben Maimon; Abraham ben Moses ben Maimon; Jewish medieval pietism; medieval Sufism;
Summary/Abstract: During the Ayyubide dynasty (1171-1260), founded by the sultan Saladin or Salah-ad-din (1137-1193), the son of Moses ben Maimon, Abraham ben Moses ben Maimon (1186-1237), followed his father as leader of the Jewish community in Egypt, nagid (Hebrew), al-raʼīs or al-rayyis (Arabic). In accordance with the analysis of Elisha Russ-Fishbane, Abraham ben Moses ben Maimon, in the work The Sufficient [Guide] for the Servants of God, continued Moses ben Maimon’s arguments in Moreh nevukhim on prophetic gift as reaching human perfection. Unlike his father, who used as bibliographic background the system of thought whereby Al-Fārābī (ca. 870-950) had evinced ontological continuity due to which divine inspiration animates the political ideal of the “king philosopher” as a hypostasis of reason and the theocratic ideal of the “legislator-prophet-imām” as a hypostasis of imagination, Abraham opted for a limited proximity to the mystic theology of medieval Sufism.
Journal: Danubius
- Issue Year: XXXIX/2021
- Issue No: 1
- Page Range: 229-236
- Page Count: 8
- Language: English
