Kotzk Podcast 071: Avraham Ibn Daud: Maimonides’ unspoken mentor?
Update: 2025-11-09
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Is it possible that Maimonides (1138-1204) had an unspokenmentor who has been largely overlooked by history? This ‘mentor’ may have been the twelfth-century philosopher, translator, and historian Avraham Ibn Daud (c. 1110–1180). “[H]istory has been rather unkind” (Fontaine 2023:1) to Avraham Ibn Daud. Yet, it seems that Maimonides was not the first to engage with Arabic Aristotelian rationalists, because just decades before, Avraham Ibn Daud emergedas the pioneering rabbinic thinker who made:
“the first attempt to integratethe teachings of the Muslim Aristotelians into a Jewish philosophic theology”(Fontaine 2007-8:23 ).
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