- Tel Aviv Museum of Art, Publications, Department MemberThe Van Leer Jerusalem Institute, Maktoob and the Translators Forum, Department Memberadd
- Philosophy, Intellectual History, History of Science, Neoplatonism, Medieval Arabic Philosophy, Sufism, and 20 moreKabbalah, Metaphysics, Judaeo-Arabic, Ethics, Jewish Thought, Muslim philosophy and thought, Art History, Poetry, Philosophy and Mysticism, Maimonides, Geometry, Jewish Philosophy, Emanuel Levinas, Muslim Spain, Renaissance Neoplatonists, 17th Century Rationalism, Non-vitalian Lurianic Kabbalah, Philosophical Scepticism, Islamic Mysticism, and Diaspora Studiesedit
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Research Interests: Political Philosophy, Ethics, Human Rights, Equality and Diversity, Theories of Justice, and 10 moreSimone Weil, Sephardi/Mizrahi Studies, Nonviolent Civil Resistance, Wole Soyinka, Resistance, Non violence, Mizrahi, Arab Jews, Critique of Zionism, Vicki Shiran, Contemporary Nigerian Poetry, and Wole Soyinka Studies
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Research Interests: Family studies, Simone Weil, Sephardic Studies, Solomon Ibn Gabirol, Holocaust, and 11 moreJerusalem in Art, Lurianic Kabbalah, Federico García Lorca, Saloniki, Duende, Avot Yeshurun, Ladino (Judeo-Spanish) Language and Literature, Sephardic Jews, Kabbalah In Safed, the Greeks in Auschwitz, and Sephardic Diaspora and Migrations
Research Interests: Contemporary Art, Samuel Beckett, Walter Benjamin, Jacques Lacan, Marshall McLuhan, and 15 moreHenri Michaux, Georges Perec (Literature), John Cage, William S. Burroughs, Isaac Asimov, Maya Deren, Kraftwerk, Arts and Technology, David Lynch, Painting, cinema and visual arts, James G. Ballard, Pierre Teilhard de Chardin, Steve Reich, David Avidan, willem flusser, and letterism
Research Interests: Epistemology, Contemporary Art, Christian Mysticism, Altered States of Consciousness, Choreography, and 13 moreZen Buddhism, Sufism, Contemporary Literature, Kabbalah, Maimonides, Meditation, Philosophy of Embodied Consciousness, Consiousness, Philosophy of mind Free will and Consciousness, Indian Philosophy and Comparative Philosophy, Studies of Consciousness, Consciousness and Science, Quantum Physics and Consciousness, and Consciousness and Creativity
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Research Interests: Hebrew Literature, Ethics, Poetry, Ecology, Compassion, and 15 moreVegetation Ecology, Baruch Spinoza, Jewish Philosophy, Ecopoetics, Animals in Culture, Empathy, Compassion, Trust, Halacha, Meat and meat consumption, Enviromental Ethics, Sefer Hasidim, Joseph Albo, Samuele Davide Luzzatto (ShaDaL), Moses Chaim Luzzatto, Haviva Pedaya, and Eliyahu Klatzkin
On Emmanuel Levinas' partial acceptance into Israeli intellectual milieu and its causes; On the idea of the "Other" in Levinas' writings, And on Levinas' meeting with Monsieur Chouchani and the Talmud as key phenomena in Levinas'... more
On Emmanuel Levinas' partial acceptance into Israeli intellectual milieu and its causes; On the idea of the "Other" in Levinas' writings, And on Levinas' meeting with Monsieur Chouchani and the Talmud as key phenomena in Levinas' philosophical and hermeneutical development.
Research Interests: Philosophy, Metaphysics, Ethics, Talmud, Hermeneutics, and 15 moreEdmund Husserl, Paul Ricoeur, Simone Weil, Hermeneutic Phenomenology, Jean Paul Sartre, Modern Jewish Philosophy, Other, Hermann Cohen, Phenemenology, Emanuel Levinas, Yeshayahu Leibowitz, Agnon, Jacqueline Kahanoff, Jaques Lacan, and Monsieur Chouchani
This Article delves into Ibn Gabirol's vast commitment toward science, logic and philosophy in his poetry and his philosophical writings, and his determined obligation to transmit the foundations of wisdom to his beloved pupil, in order... more
This Article delves into Ibn Gabirol's vast commitment toward science, logic and philosophy in his poetry and his philosophical writings, and his determined obligation to transmit the foundations of wisdom to his beloved pupil, in order to advance him toward achieving moral and intellectual perfection.
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This publication is an historical-philosophical inquiry about the riddle of Mosaic prophecy in Maimonides' writings. It examines the affinity of Mosaic prophecy, according to Maimonides (1138-1204), toward metaphysical contemplation and... more
This publication is an historical-philosophical inquiry about the riddle of Mosaic prophecy in Maimonides' writings. It examines the affinity of Mosaic prophecy, according to Maimonides (1138-1204), toward metaphysical contemplation and its epistemological limitations, which prevented even Moses, the man of ultimate perfection (a singular phenomenon in human history), from achieving an Intellectual unity with the Active Intellect. Moses was only permanently intellectualized by the emanated light (Intelligibles), flowing from the Active Intellect.
The essay also suggests a comparative study about concepts of human perfection, divine illumination, and prophecy in the philosophical writings of Al-Fārābī (880-950), Ibn Sīnā (Avicenna, 980-1037), and Ibn Bajjah (Avenpace, 1090-1138) ,and their contemporaries Sūfī scholars: Abū Ḥāmid Al- Ghazālī (1058-1111), and Shihāb al-Dīn al-Suhrawardī (1154-1191).
The essay also suggests a comparative study about concepts of human perfection, divine illumination, and prophecy in the philosophical writings of Al-Fārābī (880-950), Ibn Sīnā (Avicenna, 980-1037), and Ibn Bajjah (Avenpace, 1090-1138) ,and their contemporaries Sūfī scholars: Abū Ḥāmid Al- Ghazālī (1058-1111), and Shihāb al-Dīn al-Suhrawardī (1154-1191).
Research Interests: Metaphysics, Epistemology, Old Testament Prophecy, Sufism, Ibn Sina, and 15 moreAl Farabi, Arabic Philosophy, Abu Hamid Muhammad al-Ghazali (d. 1111), Jewish Philosophy, Judeo-Arabic, Maimonides, Ibn Bajjah (Avempace), Illumination, Moses, Mystical Union, Hebrew Bible/Old Testament, Shihab al-Din al-Suhrawardi al-Maqtul and his school of thought, Images of the Prophet Muhammad, Judaeo Arabic Literature, and Muslim philosophy and thought
This study offers a reading in Maimonides' Interpretation of the Account of the Chariot (Guide of the Perplexed, Part III Chapters I-VII, according to Ezekiel Capter I and X) and the comprehensive description of Iṣḥaq Ibnul Laṭīf's... more
This study offers a reading in Maimonides' Interpretation of the Account of the Chariot (Guide of the Perplexed, Part III Chapters I-VII, according to Ezekiel Capter I and X) and the comprehensive description of Iṣḥaq Ibnul Laṭīf's interpretive remark on Maimonides' esoteric study.
Ibnul-Laṭīf (1210-1270), was a Judeo-Toledean philosophical author, who formulated a complex syntesis between Arabic-Hebraic Neoplatonic trends and the Arabic-Hebraic Aristotlian school of the Judeo-Andalusian intellectual elite of the late 12th century, which was mainly influenced by Al-Fārābī (880-950) and Maimonides (1138-1204).
Ibnul-Laṭīf's interpretive remark on Maimonides' philosophical commentary on the Account of the Chatiot indicates his vast familiarity with the Andalusian philosophical milieu and his deep affinity toward the philosophical and the mystical lores which flourished troughout Andalusia during the 11th and the 12th centuries.
Ibnul-Laṭīf (1210-1270), was a Judeo-Toledean philosophical author, who formulated a complex syntesis between Arabic-Hebraic Neoplatonic trends and the Arabic-Hebraic Aristotlian school of the Judeo-Andalusian intellectual elite of the late 12th century, which was mainly influenced by Al-Fārābī (880-950) and Maimonides (1138-1204).
Ibnul-Laṭīf's interpretive remark on Maimonides' philosophical commentary on the Account of the Chatiot indicates his vast familiarity with the Andalusian philosophical milieu and his deep affinity toward the philosophical and the mystical lores which flourished troughout Andalusia during the 11th and the 12th centuries.
Research Interests: Philosophy, Metaphysics, Medieval Science, Plotinus, Al Farabi, and 14 moreProclus, Neoplatonism, Iamblichus, Ibn Bajjah (Avempace), Medieval Arabic Philosophy, Reason and Revelation, Ikhwan al-Safa, Medieval Castile, Andalusian Studies, Maimonides' Guide of Perplexed, Al-batalyusi, Medieval Interpretations of the Account of the Chariot, Isaac ben Abraham Ibn Latif, and Theology of Aristotle
The article shines light on perspectives of socio-political and metaphysical equality in Judaeo-Arabic and Hebraic philosophical writings of the 12th and the 13th centuries, based on texts by Moses Ibn Ezra (1055-1140), Maimonides... more
The article shines light on perspectives of socio-political and metaphysical equality in Judaeo-Arabic and Hebraic philosophical writings of the 12th and the 13th centuries, based on texts by Moses Ibn Ezra (1055-1140), Maimonides (1138-1204), and Isaac Ibn Laţīf (1210-1269).
Research Interests: Metaphysics, Ethics, Aristotle, Sufism, Equality, and 15 moreAl-Andalus, Jewish Philosophy, Medieval Jewish Philosophy, Medieval Jewish History, Neoplatonism, Kabbalah, Maimonides, Ibn Rushd (Averroës), Ibn 'Arabi, Alfarabi, Medieval geometry, Judaeo Arabic Literature, Max Kadushin, Moses Ibn Ezra, and Isaac ben Abraham Ibn Latif
This paper delves into the question of Isaac Ibn Latif's authorship on "The Letter of Reply" (אגרת התשובה) , a responsa concerning philosophy, biblical commentary, and medical knowledge, which its author spoke highly of Maimonides and... more
This paper delves into the question of Isaac Ibn Latif's authorship on "The Letter of Reply" (אגרת התשובה) , a responsa concerning philosophy, biblical commentary, and medical knowledge, which its author spoke highly of Maimonides and his philosophical legacy.
The article provides textual evidences which placed the author between Spain and Provence during the fifth decade of the 13th century, after R. Moses Ben Nahman (Ramban) and R. Yonah Gerondi, took power in Barcelona and Toledo, causing some of the non-Kabbalists elite to roam to Provence, where they could still find a philosophical milieu.
In addition, This publication Inquires the author's philosophical interpretations of theological motifs, such as: the Akedah (Binding of Isaac), resurrection, and the eternity of the soul , in accordance with philosophical ethics and VIta Contemplativa of the philosophers.
The article provides textual evidences which placed the author between Spain and Provence during the fifth decade of the 13th century, after R. Moses Ben Nahman (Ramban) and R. Yonah Gerondi, took power in Barcelona and Toledo, causing some of the non-Kabbalists elite to roam to Provence, where they could still find a philosophical milieu.
In addition, This publication Inquires the author's philosophical interpretations of theological motifs, such as: the Akedah (Binding of Isaac), resurrection, and the eternity of the soul , in accordance with philosophical ethics and VIta Contemplativa of the philosophers.
Research Interests: Ethics, Medieval Jewish Philosophy, Medieval Jewish History, Neoplatonism, Jewish Ethics, Maimonides, and 11 moreKabbalah, Barcelona, Ramban, Béziers, Akedah (the binding and near murder of Isaac), Toledo, Maimonidean Controversy, Vita Contemplativa, Jewish Neoplatonism, Jewish Medieval Literature, and Isaac ben Abraham Ibn Latif
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Research Interests: Abrahamic Religions, Sufism, Judeo-Arabic, Maimonides, Ibn Arabi, and 13 moreMedieval Jewish-Muslim Encounters, Judeo-arabic manuscripts regarding Islam, Polemics of Jewish Authors against Islam, philosophical Sufism (school of Ibn 'Arabi), Qushayri, Judaeo-Arabic, Neoplatonism In Medieval Islam, Judaeo Arabic Literature, Quranic hermeneutics, Jewish Neoplatonism, Junayd Baghdadi, Abraham Maimonides, al-Junayd (835-910) , Joseph ben Judah Ibn Aqnin, and Abū Madyan Shuʽayb ibn al-Ḥusayn al-Anṣārī (1115-1198 AD),
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The Lecture focused on the preface, and the second part of The Soul of Life (Published: December 1651, Amsterdam) by R. Menashe ben Israel (1603-1657). I examined Ben Israel's description of himself as being evoke to write his book "by a... more
The Lecture focused on the preface, and the second part of The Soul of Life (Published: December 1651, Amsterdam) by R. Menashe ben Israel (1603-1657). I examined Ben Israel's description of himself as being evoke to write his book "by a touch of an angel" and delved into the Intellectual (Art, Literature and Philosophy) context of this claim. Furthermore, I tried to offer a new perspective of understanding Ben Israel's polemics against the concept of psyche/soul in R. Isaac ʽArama (1420-1494) philosophical works in the framework of the 17th century polemics on the eternity of souls among the Nação [= Spanish-Portuguese Jews].
Research Interests: Art History, Baruch Spinoza, Hugo Grotius, Rembrandt, Caravaggio, and 14 moreAntonio Vieira, pre-modern Europe, Kabbalah and Jewish Philosophy, Sephardic Jews, Nação, Book of Daniel (commentary), John Philoponus, Life after death in Jewish and Christian thought, Uriel Da Costa, Sephardic Jews Amsterdam, Willem Drost, Nicholas Régnier , menashe ben israel, and Samuel Da Silva
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Research Interests: Aristotle's Commentators, Alexander of Aphrodisias, Jewish-Muslim Relations, Averroism, Themistius, and 13 moreIbn Rushd (Averroës), Alfarabi, Ikhwan al-Safa, Nahmanides, Maimonides' Guide of Perplexed, Comparative Medieval Encyclopaedism, History of Arabic Science, John Philoponus, Samuel Ibn Tibbon, Arabic Plotinus, Shem Tov ben Yosef Falaquera, Moses Ibn Tibbon, and Isaac ben Abraham Ibn Latif
Research Interests: Jorge Luis Borges, Galileo Galilei, Intellectual History of the Baroque Period, Johannes Kepler, Jewish Philosophy, and 11 moreKabbalah, Medieval Arabic Philosophy, Arthur Schnitzler, Erasmus of Rotterdam, CZesław Miłosz, Nicolaus Copernicus, Joseph Delmedigo, Karaites, Judeo-Arabic, Medieval Jewish History and Literature, Kabbalah of Saruq, Philosophy and Mysticism, and Non-vitalian Lurianic Kabbalah
Research Interests: Quranic Studies, Ibn Sina, Muslim Spain, Neoplatonism, Solomon Ibn Gabirol, and 14 moreMaimonides, Iamblichus, Alfarabi, Ikhwan al-Safa, Jewish Liturgy, Sefer Yetzirah, History of Arabic Science, Saadiah Gaon, Shlomo Pines, Ibn Masarra, Isaac Israeli, Jewish and christian byzantine Liturgy, Plotinus Arabus, and Proclus Arabus
Research Interests: Sufism, Ilm al-Kalam, Abbasid Intellectual History, Islam, Astrophysics, and 15 moreIslamic Mysticism, Medieval Mediterranean, Heresy and Orthodoxy, History of Baghdad, Medieval heresy, Abū al-Hasan ‘Ali ibn ‘Ūthman al Jullabi al Hujwīrī, Qushayri, husayn ibn mansur al Hallaj, Hindu Philosphy, House of Wisdom, Presence of God, Al Hakim Al Tirmidhi, God's Omnipotence, Dhu'l-Nun al-Misri, and Rabia al-Adawiyya
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Research Interests: Sufism, Neoplatonism, Ismaili thought, Ikhwan al-Safa, Shi`a, Zaydis in Yemen, Zaydi leadership, and 9 moreMaimonides' Guide of Perplexed, Hamid al-Din al-Kirmani, Mystical Philosophy, Isaac ben Abraham Ibn Latif, Kitab al-Yanabi' by Abu Ya'qub al-Sijistani, Jews of Yemen, Philosophical mysticism, yemen jewry, and Ḥōṭer Ben Shelōmō al-Dhamārī
Research Interests: Contemporary Sufism, Sephardic Studies, Lurianic Kabbalah, Byzantine and Ottoman Jewelry, Sabbatianism, and 11 moreSephardic Jews, 16th Century Sephardi Jews in Ottoman Palace, Initation studies, Kabbalah In Safed, Jews in the Ottoman Empire, Sephardic Diaspora and Migrations, Kabbalah In Jerusalem, The Jews of Crete, seclusion rooms, Neḥemya Ḥiyya Ḥayyon , and turkish jewry
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Research Interests: Abrahamic Religions, Sufism, Alexander of Aphrodisias, Neoplatonism, Muslim-Jewish Relations, and 15 moreMaimonides, Ibn Arabi, Ibn Bajjah (Avempace), Ibn Rushd (Averroës), Ibn 'Arabi, Alfarabi, Illumination, Prophecy, Andalusian Studies, philosophical Sufism (school of Ibn 'Arabi), İbrahim, Maimonides' Guide of Perplexed, Divine Mercy, Mystical Philosophy, and metaphysics of light
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Research Interests: Jewish Thought, Jewish-Muslim Relations, Judeo-Arabic, Cairo Genizah, Medieval Jewish-Muslim Encounters, Judeo-arabic manuscripts regarding Islam, Polemics of Jewish Authors against Islam, and 3 moreJudaeo-Arabic, Karaites, Judeo-Arabic, Medieval Jewish History and Literature, and Judaeo Arabic Literature
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Research Interests: Ethics, Scepticism, Philosophical Scepticism, Baruch Spinoza, Stoicism (Philosophy), and 12 moreMichel de Montaigne (Philosophy), Ibn Rushd (Averroës), Abraham Cohen de Herrera, Joseph Delmedigo, Elijah Delmedigo, Michael Servetus, Uriel Da Costa, Decartes, Raymond of Sabunde, Isaac la Peyrère, Francisco Sanches, and menashe ben israel
Research Interests: African Studies, Mythology, Divination, Jewish Mysticism, Visions And Dreams, and 13 moreHoly Spirit, Shekhinah, Yoruba, Jewish Rituals and Ceremonies, Lurianic Kabbalah, Motherhood, History of Jerusalem, Lagos, Kabbalah In Safed, Modern African Poetry, Contemporary Nigerian Poetry, African Religion, Rituals and Religious Symbolism, Anthropology, and Olokun
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Research Interests: Metaphysics, Aristotle, Intellectual History of Enlightenment, Ibn Sina, Intellectual History of the Baroque Period, and 13 moreIslamic manuscripts illumination, Early Modern Intellectual History, Abu Hamid Muhammad al-Ghazali (d. 1111), Alexander of Aphrodisias, History and philosophy of science (History), Themistius, Medieval Arabic Philosophy, Illumination, Shihab al-Din al-Suhrawardi al-Maqtul and his school of thought, Active Intellect, History of Arabic Science, Joseph Delmedigo, and Non-vitalian Lurianic Kabbalah
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Research Interests: Metaphysics, Ibn Sina, History and philosophy of science (History), Medieval Arabic Philosophy, Reason and Revelation, and 5 moreMedieval Jewish-Muslim Encounters, Judeo-arabic manuscripts regarding Islam, Polemics of Jewish Authors against Islam, History of Arabic Science, Reason and Revelation In Islam, History of astronomy and mathematics in medieval Islamic civilisations, and Isaac ben Abraham Ibn Latif
Research Interests: Plato, History of Geometry, Plotinus, Proclus, Neoplatonism, and 9 moreHistory and philosophy of science (History), Solomon Ibn Gabirol, Neoplatonism and Pythagoreanism, Medieval Arabic Philosophy, Ikhwan al-Safa, Andalusian Studies, Andalusian Literature, History of Arabic Science, and Al-batalyusi
Research Interests: Political Philosophy, Ethics, Intellectual History of Enlightenment, History of Political Thought, Rousseau, and 12 more17th Century Rationalism, Leibniz (Philosophy), Spinoza, Enlightenment Political Thought, Maimonides, Ibn Bajjah (Avempace), Ibn Rushd (Averroës), Medieval Arabic Philosophy, Andalusian Studies, Maimonides' Guide of Perplexed, Medieval Rationalism, and Ibn Tufayl
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Research Interests: Jewish Mysticism, Revelation, Ibn Sina, Medieval Jewish Philosophy, Neoplatonism, and 15 moreMaimonides, Andalusia/Al-Andalus, Book of Ezekiel, Ibn Bajjah (Avempace), Medieval Arabic Philosophy, Alfarabi, Metaphisics, Prophecy, Ikhwan al-Safa, Medieval Castile, Andalusian Studies, Arabic Neoplatonism, Al-batalyusi, Merkabah Mysticism and Hekhalot Literature, and Isaac ben Abraham Ibn Latif
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