The metaphysical, epistemological, and mystical aspects of happiness in the treatise on ultimate happiness attributed to moses maimonides

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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 languageEnglish
Pages (from-to)174-211
Number of pages38
JournalJournal of Jewish Thought and Philosophy
Volume26
Issue number2
DOIs
StatePublished - 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

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