Moses ben Joshua of Narbonne, also known asMoses of Narbonne,mestre Vidal Bellshom,maestro Vidal Blasom, andMoses Narboni, was amedieval Jewish philosopher andphysician born inPerpignan in theKingdom of Majorca at the end of the thirteenth century. He died sometime after 1362.[1] He began studying philosophy with his father when he was thirteen and then studied withMoses andAbraham ben David Caslari. He studied medicine and eventually became a successful physician, and was well versed in Biblical andrabbinic literature.
Eventually, he traveled to theCrown of Aragon, where he is known to have lived and studied inCervera (1348–1349). During thean outbreak of the Black Death, when persecution of Jews was widespread, ben Joshua was forced to flee when an angry mob attacked the Jewish community there. He subsequently lived inBarcelona, where he wrote a commentary on the medieval philosophical taleHayy ibn Yaqdhan, in which he called to appropriate autodidacticism as a pedagogical program.[2] He also lived inValencia. He also lived in theKingdom of Castile inToledo,Burgos andSoria (1358–1362). In 1362, he returned to Perpignan and died there.
Moses was an admirer ofAverroes; he devoted a great deal of study to his works and wrote commentaries on several of them. Perhaps Narboni's best-known work is hisTreatise on the Perfection of the Soul.
He believed that Judaism was a guide to the highest degree of theoretical and moral truth. In common with others of his era he believed that theTorah had both a simple, direct meaning accessible to the average reader as well as a deeper, metaphysical meaning accessible to thinkers. He rejected the belief inmiracles, instead believing they could be explained, and defended man'sfree will by philosophical arguments. Because of these and other beliefs, he was not accepted by many in the rabbinical Jewish community for fear of his figurative membership in the school of extreme rationalism which gave rise to questions of his legitimacy as an authority on Jewish law, custom and philosophy.[3]
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ـ كتاب كمال النفس لــ موسى النربونى ...ترجمة ودراسة نقدية (حسام الدين العفيفى أحمد محمود سليمان)...رسالة ماجستر ــ جامعة الأزهر 2007م
