Moses Ben Joshua - Known Writings

Known Writings

  • "Perush mi-Millot ha-Higgayon," on the terminology of Maimonides' "Guide for the Perplexed"
  • a commentary on the "Guide for the Perplexed"
  • "Ma'amar Alexander be-Sekel," supercommentary on Averroes' commentary on Alexander of Aphrodisias' work on the intellect
  • a commentary on Averroes' "middle" commentary on Aristotle's "Physics"
  • a commentary on Averroes' paraphrase of the "Organon"
  • a commentary on the fourth part of Avicenna's "Canon"
  • a commentary on Ghazali's "Maḳaṣid al-Falasifah"
  • "Iggeret 'Al-Shi'ur Ḳomah," a mystical letter on the "Shi'ur Komah," attributed to the Tanna, Rabbi Yishmael
  • a commentary on the Book of Lamentations
  • a commentary on Averroes' treatise on the hylic intellect and the possibility of conjunction
  • "Shelemut ha-Nefesh," a collection of Aristotle's and Averroes' writings on the soul
  • a commentary on Averroes' dissertation on physics and on the treatise "De Substantia Orbis"
  • "Ketab Ḥai ben Yaḳẓan," commentary on the philosophical novel of Ibn Ṭufail
  • "Oraḥ Ḥayyim," a treatise on medicine
  • "Ma'amar bi-Beḥirah," a treatise on free will written in refutation of Abner of Burgos
  • a commentary on Averroes' commentary on the "De Cœlo et Mundo"
  • a treatise on metaphysics
  • "Pirḳe Mosheh," philosophical aphorisms
  • "Iggeret Meyuḥedet," on Abraham ibn Ezra's commentary on Genesis 11:2

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