The Cambridge Companion to Medieval Jewish Philosophy Book

	List of contributors
	Preface
	Chronology
	Note on transliteration
	Glossary
1	Introduction to the study of medieval Jewish philosophy	3
2	The biblical and rabbinic background to medieval Jewish philosophy	16
3	The Islamic context of medieval Jewish philosophy	38
4	Saadya and Jewish kalam	71
5	Jewish Neoplatonism: Being above Being and divine emanation in Solomon ibn Gabirol and Isaac Israeli	91
6	Judah Halevi and his use of philosophy in the Kuzari	111
7	Maimonides and medieval Jewish Aristotelianism	136
8	Maimonides and the sciences	157
9	Medieval Jewish political thought	176
10	Judaism and Sufism	201
11	Philosophy and kabbalah: 1200-1600	218
12	Arabic into Hebrew: The Hebrew translation movement and the influence of Averroes upon medieval Jewish thought	258
13	Philosophy in southern France: Controversy over philosophic study and the influence of Averroes upon Jewish thought	281
14	Conservative tendencies in Gersonides' religious philosophy	304
15	The impact of Scholasticism upon Jewish philosophy in the fourteenth and fifteenth centuries	345
16	Jewish philosophy and the Jewish-Christian philosophical dialogue in fifteenth-century Spain	371
17	Hasdai Crescas and anti-Aristotelianism	391
18	The end and aftereffects of medieval Jewish philosophy	414
	Guide to further reading in English	446
	Index	464