Hayim Jonah Gurland. O Vliyanii Filosofii Musulmanskoi Religii, a imenno: Mutakallimov, Mutazalitov i Ashariev na Filosofiyu Religii…Moiseya Maimonida.

(MAIMONIDES, MOSES).

St. Petersburg

1863

FIRST EDITION. Text in Russian, Hebrew and Arabic.

A study on the influence of Islamic philosophy, in particular the Mutakallimun, Muatazilites and Asharians, on Maimonides. The author, Hayim Gurland (1843-90) was born in Kletsk, Belorussia, and was educated at the Vilna rabbinical seminary and at the University of St. Petersburg, where he studied Oriental languages with D. Chwolson. While employed at the Imperial Library of St. Petersburg, Gurland worked on the Firkovich manuscripts, being one of the first to discover his forgeries. He published the results of this research as Ginzei Yisrael Be’St. Petersburg (1865–67). In 1873 he was appointed inspector of the Jewish teachers’ seminary in Zhitomir. In 1888 the government appointed him rabbi of Odessa.”(EJ)