A. Primary Literature: Editions and Translations

Abraham ibn Daud

• Cohen, G.D. (ed.), 1967, A critical edition with a translation and notes of the Book of tradition (Sefer ha-qabbalah) by Abraham Ibn Daud, London: Routledge & Kegan. (Scholar)
• Eran, A. (ed.), 2019, The Exalted faith / Abraham Ibn Da’ūd Ha-Emunah ha-Ramah / translated by Solomon Ibn Lavi Ha-Emunah ha-Nissa’ah / translated by Samuel Ibn Maṭūṭ The anonymous commentary to Ha-Emunah ha-Ramah, critical edition with an introduction, notes and a glossary of unusual variants in the translations, Jerusalem: Ben-Zvi Institute (Scholar)
• Eran, A., 1990, Meqorotav ha-filosofiyyim shel Avraham ibn Daud be-sifro al-‘Aqîdah al-rafî ‘ah, Ph.D. thesis, Hebrew University Jerusalem. (Scholar)
• Samuelson, N.M. (ed.), 1986, The Exalted Faith. Abraham Ibn Daud, translated with commentary by N.M. Samuelson, translation edited by Gershon Weiss, Teaneck: Fairleigh Dickinson University Press, London: Associated University Press. (Scholar)
• Vehlow, K. (ed.), 2013, Abraham Ibn Daud’s Dorot ‘Olam (Generations of the Ages): A Critical Edition and Translation of Zikhron Divrey Romi, Divrey Malkhey Isra’el, and the Midrash on Zechariah, Leiden/Boston: Brill. (Scholar)
• Weil, S. (ed.), 1852, Ha-Emunah ha-Ramah, Frankfurt am Main. (Edition and German Translation.) (Scholar)

Maimonides

• Pines, S., (trans.), 1963, Moses Maimonides. Guide of the Perplexed, Chicago: University of Chicago Press. (Scholar)

B. Secondary Literature

Monographs

• Arfa, M., 1954, Abraham Ibn Daud and the Beginnings of Medieval Jewish Aristotelianism, Ph.D. thesis, Columbia University. (Scholar)
• Eran, A., 1998, Me-Emunah tamah le-emunah ramah (From Simple Faith to Sublime Faith). Ibn Daud’s Pre-Maimonidean Thought, [Tel-Aviv:] Hakibbutz Hameuchad. (Scholar)
• Fontaine, R., 1990, In Defence of Judaism: Abraham Ibn Daud. Sources and structure of ha-Emunah ha-Ramah. Assen: Van Gorcum. (Scholar)
• Guggenheimer, J., 1850, Die Religionsphilosophie des Abraham b. David ha-Levi, Augsburg. (Scholar)
• Guttmann, J. 1877–8, “Die Religionsphilosophie des Abraham ibn Daud aus Toledo”, Monatsschrift für Geschichte und Wissenschaft des Judentums, 26: 461–77; 540–56 and 27: 14–35; 110–29; 161–9; 202–17; 262–81; 304–16; 361–76; 400–22; 452–69; 503–22; 532–68. (Scholar)

Surveys

• Guttmann, J., 1976, Philosophies of Judaism. A History of Jewish Philosophy from Biblical Times to Franz Rosenzweig, New York: Schocken, 143–52. (Scholar)
• Husik, I., 2002, A History of Medieval Jewish Philosophy, Minneola, NY: Dover Publications, 197–235; 1^st edition, 1916, London: Macmillan. (Scholar)
• Sirat, C., 1985, A History of Jewish Philosophy in the Middle Ages, Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, and Paris: Editions de la Maison des Sciences de l’homme, 141–55. (Scholar)
• Steinschneider, M., 1956, Die hebräischen Übersetzungen des Mittelalters und die Juden als Dolmetscher, Graz: Akademische Druck- und Verlagsanstalt, §211, 368-72 (This is a reprint of Berlin, 1893.) (Scholar)

Specific Topics

• d’Alverny, M.T., 1954, “Avendauth?”, in Homenaje a Millas Vallicrosa I, Barcelona: Consejo Superior de Investigaciones Científicas, 20–43. (Scholar)
• Bacher, W., 1892, Die Bibelexegese der jüdischen Religionsphilosophen des Mittelalters vor Maimûni, Berlin, 137–55. (Scholar)
• Bertolacci, A., 2011, “A community of Translators: The Latin Medieval Versions of Avicenna’s Book of the Cure”, in C.J. Mews, J.N. Crossley (eds.), Communities of Learning. Networks and the Shaping of Intellectual Identity in Europe, 1100–1500, Turnhout: Brepols, 37–54. (Scholar)
• Burnett, C., 2009, Arabic into Latin in the Middle Ages (articles V, VI and VII), Variorum Collected Studies Series, Ashgate. (Scholar)
• Ehrlich, D., 2010, “Le-hashpa‘ato shel ha-Emunah ha-Ramah le-R. Abraham Ibn Daud ‘al Sefer ha-‘Iqqarim le-R. Yosef Albo”, ‘Alei Sefer, 21: 35–46. (Scholar)
• Eran, A., 1993, “Hashpa‘at Ibn Sina ‘al-hokhahat hisha’arut ha-nefesh be-mishnat Avraham ibn Da’ud”, Da‘at, 31: 5–26.
• –––, 1996, “Ha-yahas bein shenei ha-tirgumim le-sifro shel Ibn Da’ud al-‘Aqîdah al-rafî ‘ah”, Tarbiz, 65: 97–107. (Scholar)
• –––, 1997, “Abraham Ibn Daud’s definition of substance and accident”, Arabic Sciences and Philosophy, 7: 228–65. (Scholar)
• –––, 2004, “ ‘U-qzat ha-gar‘inim yifgeshu erez shemenah’: meshal ha-zera‘ we-ha-zore‘a be-sefer Emunah Ramah le-Avraham Ibn Da’ud”, Tarbiz, 73: 139–150.
• Fidora, A., 2004, “Abraham Ibn Daud und Dominicus Gundissalinus: Philosophie und religiöse Toleranz im Toledo des 12. Jahrhunderts”, in M. Lutz-Bachmann and A. Fidora (eds.), Juden, Christen und Muslime. Religionsdialoge im Mittelalter, Darmstadt, 10–26. (Scholar)
• –––, 2011, “Religious Diversity and the Philosophical Translations of 12th-Century Toledo”, in C.J. Mews, J.N. Crossley (eds.), Communities of Learning. Networks and the Shaping of Intellectual Identity in Europe, 1100–1500, Turnhout: Brepols, 19–36. (Scholar)
• Fontaine, R., 2002, “Abraham Ibn Daud and the Midrash ha-Hokhma: a Mini-Discovery”, in Zutot: Perspectives on Jewish Culture, 2: 156–63. (Scholar)
• –––, 2005, “Abraham Ibn Daud’s Polemics against Muslims and Christians”, in B. Roggema, M. Poorthuis, P. Valkenberg (eds.), The Three Rings, Textual Studies in the Historical Trialogue of Judaism, Christianity, and Islam, Leuven: Peeters, 19–34. (Scholar)
• –––, 2007, ‘Was Maimonides an Epigone?’, Studia Rosenthaliana, 40: 9–26. (Scholar)
• –––, 2010, “For the Dossier of Abraham Ibn Daud. Some Observations on an Anonymous Commentary on ha-Emunah ha-Ramah”, Zutot. Perspectives on Jewish Culture, 35–40. (Scholar)
• –––, 2011, “‘Happy is he whose children are boys’: Abraham Ibn Daud and Avicenna on Evil”, in D.N. Hasse, A. Bertolacci (eds.), The Arabic, Hebrew and Latin Rception of Avicenna’s Metaphysics, Berlin: De Gruyter, 159–175. (Scholar)
• –––, and Harvey, S., 2011, “Jewish Philosophy on the Eve of the Age of Averroism: Ibn Daud’s Necessary Existent and His Use of Avicennian Science”, in P. Adamson (ed.), In the Age of Averroes: Arabic Philosophy in the Sixth/Twelfth Century, London: The Warburg Institute / Turin: Nino Aragno Editore, 215–227. (Scholar)
• Freudenthal, G., 2016, “Abraham Ibn Daud, Avendauth, Dominicus Gundissalinus and Practical Mathematics in Mid-Twelfth Century Toledo”, Aleph, 16(1): 61–106. (Scholar)
• Hasse, D.N., 2006, “The Social Conditions of the Arabic (Hebrew-) Latin Translation Movement in Medieval Spain and in the Renaissance” in A. Speer, L Wegener (eds.), Wissen über Grenzen: Arabisches Wissen und Lateinisches Mittelalter, Berlin: De Gruyter, 68–86. (Scholar)
• Horovitz, S., 1912, Die Psychologie des Aristotelikers Abraham ibn Daud, Jahresbericht des jüdisch-theologischen Seminars Fraenckel’scher Stiftung für das Jahr 1911, Breslau. (Scholar)
• Kaufmann, D., 1877, Geschichte der Attributenlehre in der jüdischen Religionsphilosophie des Mittelalters von Saadja bis Maimûni, Gotha, 241–52, 341–60. (Scholar)
• Krakowski, E., 2007, “On the Literary Character of Abraham Ibn Da’ud’s Sefer ha-Qabbalah ”, European Journal of Jewish Studies, 1: 219–47. (Scholar)
• Polloni, N., 2017, “Toledan Ontologies: Gundissalinus, Ibn Daud, and the Problems of Gabirolian Hylomorphism”, in A. Fidora and N. Polloni (eds.), Appropriation, Interpretation and Criticism: Philosophical and Theological Exchanges Between the Arabic, Hebrew and Latin Intellectual Traditions, Barcelona and Roma: FIDEM, 19–49. (Scholar)
• Schmelzer, M., 1989, “Two Philosophical Passages in the Liturgical Poetry of Rabbi Isaac Ibn Giat”, in Of Scholars, Savants and their Texts, R. Link-Saliger (ed.), New York: Peter Lang, 209–215. (Scholar)
• Schwartz, Y, 2013, “The Medieval Hebrew Translations of Dominicus Gundissalinus”, in A. Fidora, H.J. Hames, Y. Schwartz (eds.), Latin-into-Hebrew, vol. 2., Texts in Contexts, Leiden and Boston: Brill, 19–43. (Scholar)
• Wolfson, H. A., 1973, 1977, Studies in the History of Philosophy and Religion (2 volumes), Twersky and G.H. Williams (eds.), Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Press. [index, s.v. Abraham Ibn Daud.] (Scholar)
• Zonta, M., 2002, “Avicenna in Medieval Jewish Philosophy”, in J. Janssens and D. De Smet (eds.), Avicenna and his Heritage, Leuven: Leuven University Press, 267–80. (Scholar)