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Saadya Gaon: The Double Path of the Mystic and the Rationalist
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Saadya Gaon: The Double Path of the Mystic and the Rationalist Hardcover - 2013

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  • Title Saadya Gaon: The Double Path of the Mystic and the Rationalist
  • Author Hegedus
  • Binding Hardcover
  • Pages 256
  • Volumes 1
  • Language ENG
  • Publisher Brill
  • Date 2013
  • ISBN 9789004256439 / 9004256431
  • Themes
    • Interdisciplinary Studies: Jewish Studies
    • Religious Orientation: Islamic
    • Religious Orientation: Jewish
  • Library of Congress subjects Philosophy, Medieval, Saadia ben Joseph
  • Library of Congress Catalog Number 2013018344
  • Dewey Decimal Code 181.06

About the author

Gyongyi Hegedus, Ph.D. (2000), Catholic University of Leuven (Belgium) is Associate Professor at the Department of Philosophy and Religious Studies at Kings' College at the University of Western Ontario (Canada). She published several articles on medieval Jewish and Islamic thought.
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Saadya Gaon: The Double Path of the Mystic and the Rationalist
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Leiden: Brill, 2013. First edition. Octavo. x, 246pp. Index and 17 page bibliography. Text in English. Green buckram lettered in white with red band near top of spine. A fine, as new copy. In Saadya Gaon: The Double Path of the Mystic and the Rationalist Gyongyi Hegedus offers a new perspective on the thought of the most significant medieval Jewish thinker of the pre-Maimonidean era, Saadya Gaon. Saadya's important philosophical works belong to two distinct traditions: his main work is written in the style of rationalist theology (kalam), but he is also responsible for composing a commentary in a neo-Pythagorean tone. In addition to contextualizing the two traditions and analyzing their Islamic parallels, the book makes the argument that Saadya consciously constructed a two-layered model of thought and harmonized two styles: one based on sensation and logic, the other on a specific prophetic insight. (Publisher) Contents: Two paths to knowledge -- The understanding of reality in the KAI and in the… Read More
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