Maimonides' Empire of Light

Ralph Lerner is the Benjamin Franklin Professor in the College and professor in the Committee on Social Thought at the University of Chicago. He is the co-editor, with Muhsin Mahdi, of Medieval Political Philosophy and, with Philip B. Kurland, of The Founders' Constitution. Lerner also served as editorial assistant to Shlomo Pines in the latter's translation of Maimonides' Guide of the Perplexed (1963).