Abstract
This article explores the metaphysical, epistemological, and mystical aspects of happiness in the Judeo-Arabic Treatise on Ultimate Happiness (Kitāb as-Saāda al-Ākhira), of which only two chapters have survived from what is thought to have been a more comprehensive text. Although the treatise is attributed to Moses Maimonides, the conception of happiness (saāda) it presents is clearly that of the Pietists (asīdīm), the Jewish-Sufi circle of thirteenth-century Egypt. The discussion of happiness in this short treatise constitutes an important chapter in the philosophical and mystical discourse about happiness in medieval Jewish-Islamic thought, especially within the Jewish-Sufi mystical stream led by Maimonides's descendants.
Original language | English |
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Pages (from-to) | 174-211 |
Number of pages | 38 |
Journal | Journal of Jewish Thought and Philosophy |
Volume | 26 |
Issue number | 2 |
DOIs | |
State | Published - 2018 |
Keywords
- Jewish mysticism
- Moses Maimonides
- Sufism
- Ultimate happiness
All Science Journal Classification (ASJC) codes
- Cultural Studies
- Anthropology
- Philosophy
- Religious studies
- Sociology and Political Science
- Literature and Literary Theory