Editing The Guide for the Perplexed (section)

{{Short description|Philosophical work by Maimonides (c. 1190 CE)}}
{{About|the 12th-century book by Maimonides|the 1977 book by E.F. Schumacher|A Guide for the Perplexed|the 2001 novel by Gilad Atzmon|A Guide to the Perplexed|}}
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| name              = The Guide for the Perplexed
| image             = Manuscript page by Maimonides Arabic in Hebrew letters.jpg
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| caption           = Maimonides' [[autograph (manuscript)|autograph]] draft of ''Dalālat al-ḥā'irīn'', written in Standard Arabic with Hebrew script, from the [[Cairo Genizah]]<ref>{{cite web | url=https://cudl.lib.cam.ac.uk/view/MS-TS-00010-KA-00004-00001/3 | title=Cairo Genizah : Philosophy }}</ref>
| author            = [[Moses Maimonides]]
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| title_orig        = {{Noitalic|{{Script/Hebrew|דלאלת אלחאירין}}}}
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| country           = [[Ayyubid dynasty|Ayyubid Empire]]
| language          = [[Judeo-Arabic languages|Judeo-Arabic]]
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| genre             = [[Jewish philosophy]]
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| pub_date          = {{c.|1190}}
| english_pub_date  = 1881
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| dewey             = 181.06
| congress          = BM545 .D3413
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| wikisource        = The Guide for the Perplexed (1904)
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'''''The Guide for the Perplexed''''' ({{langx|jrb|דלאלת אלחאירין|Dalālat al-ḥā'irīn}}; {{langx|ar|دلالة الحائرين|Dalālat al-ḥā'irīn}}; {{langx|he|מורה הנבוכים|Moreh HaNevukhim}}) is a work of [[Jewish theology]] by [[Maimonides]]. It seeks to reconcile [[Aristotelianism]] with Rabbinical Jewish theology by finding rational explanations for many events in the text.

It was written in [[Judeo-Arabic dialects|Judeo-Arabic]], a dialect of [[Classical Arabic]] using the [[Hebrew alphabet]]. It was sent originally, part after part, to his student, Rabbi [[Joseph ben Judah of Ceuta]], the son of Rabbi Judah, and is the main source of Maimonides' philosophical views, as opposed to his opinions on [[Halakha|Jewish law]].

Since many of the philosophical concepts, such as his view of [[theodicy]] and the relationship between [[philosophy]] and [[religion]], are relevant beyond Judaism, it has been the work most commonly associated with Maimonides in the non-Jewish world and it is known to have influenced several major non-Jewish philosophers.<ref>For example, [[Joseph Telushkin]] noted that "[[Thomas Aquinas]] refers in his writings to "Rabbi Moses", and shows considerable familiarity with the ''Guide''. {{cite web|url=http://www.jewishvirtuallibrary.org/jsource/biography/Maimonides.html|title=Maimonides|access-date=2007-10-10}} at the Jewish Virtual Library; also [[Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz|Leibniz]] wrote a commentary on the ''Guide''.</ref> Following its publication, "almost every philosophic work for the remainder of the [[Middle Ages]] cited, commented on, or criticized Maimonides' views."<ref>''[[Encyclopaedia Judaica]]'', {{cite web|title=Moses Maimonides.|url=http://www.encyclopaediajudaica.com/sample-articles/article_view.php?sid=moses-ben-maimon|access-date=2007-10-11|archive-date=2008-12-24|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20081224180112/http://www.encyclopaediajudaica.com/sample-articles/article_view.php?sid=moses-ben-maimon|url-status=dead}} Second Edition, Volume 13, p. 388.</ref> Within [[Judaism]], the ''Guide'' became widely popular, with many [[Jew]]ish communities requesting copies of the manuscript, but also [[Maimonidean Controversy|quite controversial]], with some communities limiting its study or banning it altogether.