Saadya Gaon and Maimonides on the Logic and Limits of Legal Inference in Context of the Karaite-Rabbanite Controversy

References

• al-Qirqisānī , Y. 1940 . Kitāb Al-Anwār w Al-Marāqib , Edited by: Nemoy , L. New York : The Alexander Kohut Memorial Foundation .
   Google Scholar
• Aquinas , T. 1970 . Commentary on the Posterior Analytics of Aristotle , Edited by: Larcher , F. R. Toronto : Magi Books .
   Google Scholar
• Baron , S. W. 1957 . A Social and Religious History of the Jews, , 2nd ed. , Vol. 5 , New York : Columbia University Press .
   Google Scholar
• ben-Shammai , H. 1971–1972 . ‘The classification of the commandments and the concept of wisdom in Rav Saadia's thought’ (Heb.) . Tarbi , 41 : 170 – 182 .
   Google Scholar
• ben-Shammai , H. 1977 . “ ‘The doctrine of religious thought of Abu Yusuf Ya‘qub al-Qirqisani and Yefet ben ‘Eli’ (Heb.) ” . Jerusalem, Israel : Hebrew University . PhD Thesis
   Google Scholar
• ben-Shammai , H. 1992 . “ ‘The Karaite controversy: scripture and tradition in early Karaism’ ” . In Religionsgesprche im Mittelalter , Edited by: Lewis , B. and Neiwhner , F. Wiesbaden : Harrassowitz .
   Google Scholar
• ben-Shammai , H. 1997 . “ ‘Kalām in medieval Jewish philosophy’ ” . In History of Jewish Philosophy , Edited by: Frank , D. H. and Leaman , O. New York : Routledge .
   Google Scholar
• Berman , L. V. 1974 . ‘Maimonides the disciple of Alfarabi’ . Israel Oriental Studies , 4 : 154 – 178 .
   Google Scholar
• Blidstein , G. J. 1990 . “ ‘Where do we stand in the study of Maimonidean halakhah?’ ” . In Studies in Maimonides , Edited by: Twersky , I. Cambridge, Massachusetts : Harvard University Press .
   Google Scholar
• Brunschvig , R. 1970 . “ ‘Logic and law in classical Islam’ ” . In Logic in Classical Islamic Culture , Edited by: von Grunebaum , G. E. Wiesbaden : Harrassowitz .
   Google Scholar
• Cohen , M. 2004 . ‘Imagination and logic, truth and falsehood: the approaches of Moses ibn Ezra and Maimonides to Biblical metaphor in light of Arabic poetics and philosophy’ (Heb.) . Tarbi , 73 : 417 – 458 .
   Google Scholar
• Davidson , H. A. 2005 . Moses Maimonides: The Man and His Work , Oxford : Oxford University Press .
   Google Scholar
• Efros , I. 1966 . ‘Maimonides' Arabic treatise on logic’ . Proceedings of the American Academy for Jewish Research , 34 : 155 – 160 . Arabic section: 9–42
   Google Scholar
• Hasnawi , A. 2004 . “ ‘Réflexions sur la terminologie logique de Maimonide et son contexte Farabien: Le Guide des perplexes et le Traité de logique’ ” . In Maimonide: philosophe et savant (1138–1204) , Edited by: Lévi , T. and Rashed , R. Leuven : Peeters .
   Google Scholar
• Hourani , G. F. 1971 . Islamic Rationalism: The Ethics of Abd al-Jabbar , Oxford : Clarendon Press .
   Google Scholar
• Hourani , G. F. 1985 . “ ‘Combinations of reason and tradition in Islamic ethics’ ” . In Reason and Tradition in Islamic Ethics , Edited by: idem . Cambridge : Cambridge University Press .
   Google Scholar
• Hyman , A. 1989 . “ ‘Demostrative, dialectical and sophistic arguments in the philosophy of Moses Maimonides’ ” . In Moses Maimonides and His Time , Edited by: Ormsby , E.L. Washington, D.C. : Catholic University of America Press .
   Google Scholar
• ibn ‘Ezra , M. and ben , Y. 1975 . Kitāb al-muāarah wa-al-mudhākarah: Liber Discussionis et Commemerationis (Heb.) , Edited by: Halkin , A.S. Jerusalem : Meqiey nirdamim .
   Google Scholar
• Kraemer , J. L. 2000 . “ ‘Maimonides' use of (Aristotelian) dialectic’ ” . In Maimonides and the Sciences , Edited by: Cohen , R. and Levine , H. Dordrecht : Kluwer Academic Press .
   Google Scholar
• Kreisel , H. 1999 . Maimonides' Political Thought: Studies in Ethics, Law, and the Human Ideal , Albany : SUNY Press .
   Google Scholar
• Lasker , D. J. 2008 . From Judah Hadasi to Elijah Bashyatchi: Studies in Late Medieval Karaite Philosophy , Leiden and Boston : Brill .
   Google Scholar
• Mahdi , M. 1963 . “ ‘Alfarabi’ ” . In History of Political Philosophy , Edited by: Strauss , L. and Cropsey , J. Chicago : Rand McNally .
   Google Scholar
• Maimonides , M. 1949 . The Code of Maimonides: Book Fourteen – The Book of Judges , Edited by: Hershman , A. M. London : Yale University Press .
   Google Scholar
• Maimonides , M. 1962 . Mishneh Torah: The Book of Knowledge , Edited by: Hyamson , M. Jerusalem : Qiryah ne'emanah .
   Google Scholar
• Maimonides , M. 1963 . The Guide of the Perplexed , Edited by: Pines , S. Chicago : Chicago University Press .
   Google Scholar
• Maimonides , M. 1995 . Introduction to his Commentary on the Mišnah , Edited by: Rosner , F. London : Jason Aronson .
   Google Scholar
• Mielziner , M. 1968 . Introduction to the Talmud , New York : Bloch Pub. Co .
   Google Scholar
• Pinsker , S. 1860 . Liqute qadmoniyot: le-qorot dat benei miqra we-ha-lieraur šelahem , Wien : Druq fon A. Della Torre .
   Google Scholar
• Ravitsky , A. 2004 . ‘Halakhic arguments as dialectical arguments and exegetical principles as Aristotelian τóπoι in Maimonides' philosophy’ (Heb.) . Tarbi , 73 : 197 – 224 .
   Google Scholar
• Ravitsky , A. 2007 . ‘Maimonides' theory of language: philosophy and halakhah’ (Heb.) . Tarbi , 76 : 185 – 231 .
   Google Scholar
• Ravitsky , A. 2008 . “ ‘Maimonides and al-Fārābī on the development of political law’ (Heb.) ” . In New Streams in Philosophy of Halakhah , Edited by: Ravitzky , A. and Rosenak , A. Jerusalem : Magnes Press .
   Google Scholar
• Ravitsky , A. 2009a . ‘Talmudic methodology and Aristotelian logic: David Ibn Bilia's commentary on the Thirteen Hermeneutic Principles’ . The Jewish Quarterly Review , 99 : 184 – 199 .
   Google Scholar
• Ravitsky , A. 2009b . ‘Rav Sa‘adya Gaon ‘al ha-logiqah šel ha-heqeš ha-hilkhati we-‘al gevulotaw’ . Masorah le-Yosef , 6 : 319 – 332 .
   Google Scholar
• Ravitsky , A. 2010 . “ ‘Aristotelian logic and Talmudic methodology: the application of Aristotelian logic to the interpretation of the methods of Jewish legal inference’ (Heb.) ” . Jerusalem : Magnes Press .
   Google Scholar
• Saadya , G. 1948 . The Book of Beliefs and Opinions , Edited by: Rosenblatt , S. London : Yale University Press .
   Google Scholar
• Šailat , Y. 1992 . Haqdamot ha-Rambam la-Mišnah , Jerusalem : Šailat – Ma‘aleh adumim .
   Google Scholar
• Slomkowski , P. 1997 . Aristotle's Topics , New York, Köln : Brill .
   Google Scholar
• Stemberger , G. 1996 . Introduction to the Talmud and Midrash , 2nd edition , Edited by: Bockmuehl , M. Edinburgh : T. & T. Clark .
   Google Scholar
• Strack , H. L. 1969 . Introduction to the Talmud and Midrash , New York : Meridian Books .
   Google Scholar
• Stroumsa , S. 2002 . Saadiah Gaon: A Jewish Thinker in a Mediterranean Society (Heb.) , Tel Aviv : Tel Aviv University Press .
   Google Scholar
• Stroumsa , S. 2003 . “ ‘Saadya and Jewish Kalam’ ” . In The Cambridge Companion to Medieval Jewish Philosophy , Edited by: Frank , D. H. and Leaman , O. Cambridge : Cambridge University Press .
   Google Scholar
• van Ess , J. 1970 . “ ‘The logical structure of islamic theology’ ” . In Logic in Classical Islamic Culture , Edited by: von Grunebaum , G. E. Wiesbaden : Harrassowitz .
   Google Scholar
• Walzer , R. 1985 . Al-Farabi on the Perfect State: A Revised Text with Translation , Oxford : Oxford University Press .
   Google Scholar
• Zonta , M. 1992 . La “Classificazione delle Scienze” di Al-Farabi Nella Tradizione Ebraica , Torino : S. Zamorani .
   Google Scholar
• Zucker , M. 1955/1956 . ‘Fragments from Rav Saadya Gaon's commentary to the Pentateuch from MSS’ (Heb.) . Sura , 2 : 313 – 355 .
   Google Scholar
• Zucker , M. 1971/1972 . ‘Fragments of the Kitāb Ta īl al-Šarā‘ i‘ al-Samā‘īyah’ (Heb.) . Tarbi , 41 : 373 – 410 .
   Google Scholar
• Zucker , M. 1984 . Saadya's Commentary of Genesis (Heb.) , New York : Bet ha-midraš le-rabanim ba-Ameriqah .
   Google Scholar
• Zysow , A. 1984 . “ ‘The economy of certainty: an introduction to the typology of Islamic legal theory’ ” . Cambridge, Massachusetts : Harvard University . PhD Thesis
   Google Scholar