Maimonides in his world: portrait of a Mediterranean thinker

Maimonides and Mediterranean culture

Mediterranean cultures

Maimonides as a Mediterranean thinker

Horizons

Transformations in the Jewish world

Maimnonides and Saadia

The theological context of Maimonides' thought

Islamic theology

Heresies, Jewish and Muslim

An Almohad "fundamentalist"?

Almohads

Maimonides and the Almohads

Legal aspects

Theology

Exegesis and political philosophy

Philosophy and astronomy

Conclusion

La longue durée : Maimonides as a phenomenologist of religion

Sabians

Maimonides as an historian of religion

"A wise and understanding people?" : the religion of the people

A critical mind : Mamonides as scientist

Medicine and science

"Ravings" : Maimonides' concept of pseudo-science

"From Moses to Moses" : Maimonides' vision of perfection

"True felicity" : the hereafter in Maimonides' thought

Issues of life and death : the controversy regarding resurrection

"Gates for the righteous nation" : the philosopher as leader.