A Contextual Examination of Maimonides's Attitudes Towards Women
Abstract
This thesis explores Maimonides’s attitudes towards women. The thesis focuses on Maimonides’s philosophical treatise, his medical works, and his works concerning ethics. An accurate and more comprehensive analysis of Maimonides’s position on women is the primary objective of this thesis. In the end, this thesis demonstrates that Maimonides’s attitudes towards women can be best understood within the contexts of the respective works in which they appear and with an awareness of their historical setting.
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Keywords
Religion, Religion--History of
Citation
Xu, M. (2016). A Contextual Examination of Maimonides's Attitudes Towards Women (Master's thesis, University of Calgary, Calgary, Canada). Retrieved from https://prism.ucalgary.ca. doi:10.11575/PRISM/24680