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Author Roiz, Javier

Title A vigilant society : Jewish thought and the state in medieval Spain / Javier Roiz ; translated by Selma L. Margaretten
Published Albany : State University of New York Press, [2013]

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Description 1 online resource (xv, 310 pages)
Contents Knowledge and power -- Moses Maimonides and the politics of dialectics -- The Gothic world comes to the south -- Kabbalah and political power -- The Zohar -- Toward a vigilant society -- Conclusions
Summary This book uncovers a fundamental change that took place in Western thinking, especially its departure from the Sephardic philosophy found in the Iberian Peninsula during the thirteenth century
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index
Notes English
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Subject Judaism and politics -- History
Political science -- History.
RELIGION -- Judaism -- Theology.
Judaism and politics.
Political science.
Genre/Form History
Form Electronic book
ISBN 9781461921400
1461921406
9781438445649
1438445644
Other Titles Sociedad vigilante y mundo judío en la concepción del estado. English