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How to Begin to Study The Guide of the Perplexed

An introductory interpretive essay arguing that Maimonides wrote esoterically, prefacing the Pines translation of the Guide of the Perplexed.

Author: Leo Strauss
Type: Book
Written: 1963
Edition: 1963
Publisher: University of Chicago Press
Language: English
Tradition: Jewish Mysticism

Where to find it

University of Chicago Press — The Guide of the Perplexed, Volume 1 (Maimonides, trans. Pines, intro. Strauss)
Contemporary Thinkers — Leo Strauss, 'How to Begin to Study The Guide of the Perplexed' (essay page/excerpt)