Maimonides

“Manguel is not only a learned scholar, however, but also a gifted writer, and he has produced an elegant and accessible book . . . an eloquent little volume.”—Steven Nadler, Times Literary Supplement

“Manguel introduces the reader to an important thinker who deserves to be far better known. It’s a masterly feat to pack so much in while keeping the language accessible. This is exactly the kind of book that should be on college summer reading lists, a guide not just to a great thinker but to the process of thinking itself.”—Marissa Moss, New York Journal of Books

“In this latest addition to the award-winning Jewish Lives series published by Yale University Press, the reader experiences the joy of discovery alongside Manguel, who places Maimonides’s life and thought in conversation with other great thinkers.”—Brian Hillman, Jewish Book Council

“Illuminating. . . . Manguel employs meticulous detail and textual support to bring alive the ‘learned scientist, brilliant philosopher, and . . . religious devotee’ in a manner that’s both intellectually rigorous and historically vivid.”—Publishers Weekly

“A multifaceted look at one of history’s most consequential minds, whose influence touched thinkers as varied as Thomas Aquinas, Franz Kafka and James Joyce.”—PJ Grisar, The Forward



“In our confusing time, when rationality is fighting for its deserved place, Alberto Manguel’s brilliant book offers a historical and analytical premise for searching for the deserved place in the spiritual confrontation with the sacred.”—Norman Manea, author of The Fifth Impossibility: Essays on Exile and Language