Averroes and Averroism in Medieval Jewish Thought

Racheli Haliva (PhD 2016, McGill) is associate professor of Jewish studies at Shandong University’s Center for Judaic and Inter-Religious Studies and a former co-director of the Maimonides Centre for Advanced Studies at Universität Hamburg. She works on the history of medieval Jewish philosophy and the relationship between Jews and Jewish converts in the Middle Ages.Yoav Meyrav (PhD 2017, Tel Aviv) is the principal investigator of the ERC-funded HEPMASITE (Hebrew Philosophical Manuscripts as Sites of Engagement) project at Universität Hamburg and a former research associate at the Maimonides Centre for Advanced Studies. He has published on ancient, Arabic, and Jewish philosophy, Hebrew philology, and the history of metaphysics.Daniel Davies (PhD 2007, Cambridge) has worked for the Taylor-Schechter Genizah Research Unit at the Cambridge University Library and on the “PESHAT in Context” project at Universität Hamburg. He focuses on medieval philosophy and philosophy of religion. His publications include Method and Metaphysics in Maimonides’ Guide for the Perplexed, which received an honourable mention from the Jordan Schnitzer Book Awards. His second book on Maimonides will be published by Polity in 2023.

• ContentsForewordRacheli Haliva, Daniel Davies and Yoav MeyravNotes on ContributorsPart 1: What Is Jewish Averroism?1 Was al-Ġazālī an Avicennist? Some Provocative Reflections on Jewish AverroismSteven Harvey2 How a Rehabilitated Notion of Latin Averroism Could Help in Understanding Jewish AverroismGiovanni LicataPart 2: The Maimonides/Averroes Complex3 Is Maimonides’s Biblical Exegesis Averroistic?Mercedes Rubio4 Averroes and Ğābir ibn Aflaḥ among the Jews: New Interpretations for Joseph ben Judah ibn Simon’s Allegorical Correspondence with MaimonidesReimund Leicht5 The Garden of Eden and the Scope of Human Knowledge: Maimonides, Falaquera and Nissim of MarseilleDavid Lemler6 The Role of Averroes’s Tahāfut in Narboni’s Commentary on the GuideYonatan ShemeshPart 3: Averroes in Jewish Religious Discourse7 Averroism, the Jewish-Christian Debate, and Mass Conversions in IberiaDaniel J. Lasker8 Double Truth in the Writings of Medieval Jewish Averroists: An Esoteric Way of Appealing to Both Sceptics and Non-scepticsShalom Sadik9 Averroes’s Influence upon Theological Responses to Scepticism in Late Medieval Jewish PhilosophyShira WeissPart 4: Jewish Authors Doing Philosophy with (and about) Averroes10 Love and Hate May Lead Astray: Moses Halevi’s Rejection of AverroesYoav Meyrav11 Averroism in Judah ha-Cohen’s Midraš ha-ḥokhmah?Resianne Fontaine12 Falaquera the AverroistYair Shiffman13 The Necessary Existent, Simplicity, and Incorporeality: An Anti-Avicennian-Averroist ApproachBakinaz Abdalla14 Gersonides and Kaspi on the Uncertainty of the Future and the Practical IntellectAlexander Green15 Rabbi Moses ben Judah (Rambi) as an AverroistEsti Eisenmann16 Crescas’s Attitude toward AverroesWarren Zev Harvey17 Matter and Elements: Al-Ġazālī and Averroes as a Source of Isaac Abravanel’s “The Forms of the Elements”Elisa CodaPart 5: Averroes in Hebrew and from Hebrew18 Choking on Water, the Stratification of Society, and the Death of Socrates in the Hebrew AverroesYehuda Halper19 Ṭodros Ṭodrosi’s accessus ad auctorem: A Hebrew “Aristotelian Prologue” to Averroes’s Middle Commentaries on Rhetoric and PoeticsFrancesca Gorgoni20 Jacob Mantino and the Alleged Second Latin Translation of Averroes’s Long Commentary on On the Soul 3.5 and 3.36Michael EngelIndex