TY - JOUR
T1 - The metaphysical, epistemological, and mystical aspects of happiness in the treatise on ultimate happiness attributed to moses maimonides
AU - Elqayam, Avi
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PY - 2018
Y1 - 2018
N2 - This article explores the metaphysical, epistemological, and mystical aspects of happiness in the Judeo-Arabic Treatise on Ultimate Happiness (Kitāb as-Saāda al-Ākhira), of which only two chapters have survived from what is thought to have been a more comprehensive text. Although the treatise is attributed to Moses Maimonides, the conception of happiness (saāda) it presents is clearly that of the Pietists (asīdīm), the Jewish-Sufi circle of thirteenth-century Egypt. The discussion of happiness in this short treatise constitutes an important chapter in the philosophical and mystical discourse about happiness in medieval Jewish-Islamic thought, especially within the Jewish-Sufi mystical stream led by Maimonides's descendants.
AB - This article explores the metaphysical, epistemological, and mystical aspects of happiness in the Judeo-Arabic Treatise on Ultimate Happiness (Kitāb as-Saāda al-Ākhira), of which only two chapters have survived from what is thought to have been a more comprehensive text. Although the treatise is attributed to Moses Maimonides, the conception of happiness (saāda) it presents is clearly that of the Pietists (asīdīm), the Jewish-Sufi circle of thirteenth-century Egypt. The discussion of happiness in this short treatise constitutes an important chapter in the philosophical and mystical discourse about happiness in medieval Jewish-Islamic thought, especially within the Jewish-Sufi mystical stream led by Maimonides's descendants.
KW - Jewish mysticism
KW - Moses Maimonides
KW - Sufism
KW - Ultimate happiness
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U2 - 10.1163/1477285x-12341231
DO - 10.1163/1477285x-12341231
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SN - 1053-699X
VL - 26
SP - 174
EP - 211
JO - Journal of Jewish Thought and Philosophy
JF - Journal of Jewish Thought and Philosophy
IS - 2
ER -