Maimonides' Empire of Light

Preface
Acknowledgments
Part One: The Politics of Public Teaching
1. Philosophy in the Public Square
2. Winged Words to Yemen
Maimonides' Epistle to Yemen
3. Curricular Reform
Maimonides' Mishneh Torah: Book of Knowledge
4. Hard Lessons for Slow Learners
Maimonides' Treatise on Resurrection
5. Back to Basics
Maimonides' Letter on Astrology
6. Teaching by Example
Maimonides' Guide of the Perplexed
7. Persuasive Speech
Falaquera's Epistle of the Debate
8. Postscript: Survival Training
Albo's Book of Roots
Part Two: Addresses to the People
Maimonides, Epistle to Yemen (1172)
Translated by Joel L. Kraemer
Maimonides' Mishneh Torah, Introduction and "Book of Knowledge" (1177)
Translated by Ralph Lerner
Maimonides' Treatise on Resurrection (1191)
Translated by Hillel G. Fradkin
Maimonides' Letter on Astrology (1194)
Translated by Ralph Lerner
Falaquera, Epistle of the Debate (before 1263)
Translated by Steven Harvey
Notes
Bibliography
Indexes