Moshe Halbertal's Maimonides: Life and Thought, published by Princeton University Press in 2014, is a modern scholarly intellectual biography of Moses Maimonides, tracing his legal, philosophical and communal work from Cordoba through Fez and Cairo. Its strength is that Halbertal is a leading scholar of Jewish thought and the book is a peer-reviewed university press monograph widely used as a standard modern account. Its limit is that it is one scholar's synthesis and interpretation of a famously contested figure, so a claim resting on a disputed point of Maimonidean interpretation, such as the relation between his legal and philosophical works, should be checked against the wider secondary literature rather than this book alone.
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AuthorMoshe Halbertal
PublisherPrinceton University Press
Publication Year2014
URLhttps://press.princeton.edu/books/hardcover/9780691158518/maimonides
Source Typeacademic biography
Assessment
Reliability Tier1
Published by Princeton University Press in 2014, Moshe Halbertal's peer reviewed monograph by a leading scholar of Jewish thought, treated at the top tier. NotesModern intellectual biography of Moses Maimonides (Rambam).
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Cairo, Cities This source names Cairo directly: "work from Cordoba through Fez and Cairo."
This source names Cordoba directly: "philosophical and communal work from Cordoba through Fez and Cairo."
This source names Maimonides directly: "Moshe Halbertal's Maimonides: Life and Thought, published by Princeton University Press in 2014, is a modern scholarly intellectual biography of Moses Maimonides, tracing his legal, philosophical..."
Claims Backed By This Source (35 claims)
This source backs 35 claims across the atlas. As facts: 20 well-attested. As cited relationships: 7 holds, 1 connected. Plus 7 entities citing it as a general reference with no single fact or relationship attached.
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- Sources, 11 claims: 8 well-attested, 3 holds.
- Religious Legal Instruments, 10 claims: 4 well-attested, 4 holds, 1 connected, 1 general references.
- Figures, 5 claims: 3 well-attested, 2 general references.
- Articles, 3 claims: 2 well-attested, 1 general references.
- Philosophical Schools, 3 claims: 2 well-attested, 1 general references.
- Rituals, 2 claims: 1 well-attested, 1 general references.
- Cities, 1 claims: 1 general references.
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20Religious Legal Instruments
Holds
7Religious Legal Instruments
Connected
1Religious Legal Instruments
General References
7Religious Legal Instruments
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