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Maimonides’ Medical Works Online is the online edition of the bookseries The Medical Works of Moses Maimonides. It provides critical editions of all the medical works by the famous rabbi, philosopher and medical doctor Moses Maimonides.

Series

The bookseries The Medical Works of Moses Maimonides aims to provide critical editions of all the medical works by the famous rabbi, philosopher and medical doctor Moses Maimonides (1138-1204). The series is part of an ongoing project. Volumes 1-10 were published by Brigham Young University Press.

Overview of volumes and works

volume work (English) work (Arabic)
MMWM 1 Aphorisms 1–5 Kitāb al-fuṣūl
MWMM 2 Aphorisms 10–15 Kitāb al-fuṣūl
MWMM 3 Aphorisms 16–21 Kitāb al-fuṣūl
MWMM 4 Aphorisms 22–25 Kitāb al-fuṣūl
MWMM 5 Aphorisms 6–9 Kitāb al-fuṣūl
MWMM 6 On Asthma 1 Maqāla fī al-rabw
MWMM 7 On Asthma 2 Maqāla fī al-rabw
MWMM 8 On Hemorrhoids Risāla fī al-bawāsīr
MWMM 9 On Poisons Kitāb al-sumūm wa-al-taḥarruz min al-adwiya al-qattāla
MMWM 10 On Rules Kitāb qawānīn al-juzʾ al-ʿamalī min ṣināʿa al-ṭibb
MMWM 11 On Coitus Kitāb fī al-jimāʿ
MMWM 12 On the Regimen of Health Fī tadbīr al-ṣiḥḥa
MMWM 13 On the Elucidation of Some Symptoms Maqāla fī bayān al-aʿrāḍwa-aljawāb ʿanhā
MMWM 14-1 Commentary on Hippocrates’ Aphorisms Sharḥ fuṣūl Abuqrāṭ
MMWM 14-2 Commentary on Hippocrates’ Aphorisms Sharḥ fuṣūl Abuqrāṭ
MMWM 15 Aphorisms (Nathan ha-Meʾati) Kitāb al-fuṣūl
MMWM 16 Aphorisms (Zerayah) Kitāb al-fuṣūl

Overview of editors

Academic board

  • Gerrit Bos (University of Cologne), general editor
  • Lawrence I. Conrad (University of Hamburg)
  • Alfred L. Ivry (New York University)
  • Y. Tzvi Langermann (Bar Ilan University, Israel)
  • Michael R. McVaugh (University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill)

Overview of volumes

Maimonides, Medical Aphorisms, Treatises 1–5
A parallel Arabic-English edition edited, translated, and annotated by Gerrit Bos
Brigham Young University Press, Provo UT, 2004

Maimonides, Medical Aphorisms, Treatises 6–9
A parallel Arabic-English edition edited, translated, and annotated by Gerrit Bos
Brigham Young University Press, Provo UT, 2007

Maimonides, Medical Aphorisms, Treatises 10–15
A parallel Arabic-English edition edited, translated, and annotated by Gerrit Bos
Brigham Young University Press, Provo UT, 2010

Maimonides, Medical Aphorisms, Treatises 16–21
A parallel Arabic-English edition edited, translated, and annotated by Gerrit Bos
Brigham Young University Press, Provo UT, 2015

Maimonides, Medical Aphorisms, Treatises 22–25
A parallel Arabic-English edition edited, translated, and annotated by Gerrit Bos
Brigham Young University Press, Provo UT, 2017

Maimonides, On Asthma
A parallel Arabic–English text edited, translated, and annotated by Gerrit Bos
Brigham Young University Press, Provo UT, 2002

Maimonides, On Asthma (Volume 2)
Critical Editions of Medieval Hebrew and Latin Translations by Gerrit Bos and Michael R. McVaugh
Brigham Young University Press, Provo UT, 2008

Maimonides, On Hemorrhoids
A parallel Arabic-English edition edited, translated, and annotated by Gerrit Bos
with Critical Editions of Medieval Hebrew Translations by Gerrit Bos and Medieval Latin Translations by Michael R. McVaugh
Brigham Young University Press, Provo UT, 2012

On Poisons and the Protection against Lethal Drugs
A parallel Arabic-English edition edited, translated, and annotated by Gerrit Bos
with Critical Editions of Medieval Hebrew Translations by Gerrit Bos and Medieval Latin Translations by Michael R. McVaugh
Brigham Young University Press, Provo UT, 2009

Maimonides, On Rules. Regarding the Practical Part of the Medical Art
A parallel Arabic-English edition by Gerrit Bos and Y. Tzvi Langermann
Brigham Young University Press, Provo UT, 2014

Maimonides On Coitus
A New Parallel Arabic-English Edition and Translation by Gerrit Bos
Volume 11; 22 Nov 2018; 9789004380080

Maimonides, On the Regimen of Health
A New Parallel Arabic-English Translation by Gerrit Bos
Volume 12; 15 May 2019; 9789004394193

Maimonides, On the Elucidation of Some Symptoms and the Response to Them (Formerly Known as On the Causes of Symptoms)
A New Parallel Arabic-English Edition and Translation, with Critical Editions of the Medieval Hebrew Translations by Gerrit Bos
Volume 13; 15 May 2019; 9789004398801

Maimonides, Commentary on Hippocrates’ Aphorisms Volume 2
A New Parallel Arabic-English Edition and Translation, with Critical Editions of the Medieval Hebrew Translations by Gerrit Bos
Volume 14.2; 01 Jan 2020; 9789004425538

Maimonides, Commentary on Hippocrates’ Aphorisms Volume 1
A New Parallel Arabic-English Edition and Translation, with Critical Editions of the Medieval Hebrew Translations by Gerrit Bos
Volume 14.1; 01 Jan 2020; 9789004412880

Maimonides, Medical Aphorisms, Hebrew Translation by Nathan ha-Meʾati
By: Gerrit Bos
Volume 15; 23 Mar 2020; 9789004428171

Maimonides, Medical Aphorisms, Hebrew Translation by R. Zeraḥyah ben Isaac ben Sheʾaltiel Ḥen
By: Gerrit Bos
Volume 16; 31 Mar 2020; 9789004428195