Stage III · The Library
Classical prose.
Once you can read Saadia, the rest of the Judeo-Arabic library opens up. Each text appears with parallel Hebrew and English — and a tap-to-define dictionary on the Judeo-Arabic side.
- LiveBahya ibn PaqudaChovot HaLevavot — complete
The complete Duties of the Hearts — Bahya's 11th-century Andalusian classic on the inner life of mitzvot — the introduction and all ten gates in its original Judeo-Arabic, with a tap-to-define dictionary on every word. The First Gate also carries a working English translation with phrase-by-phrase hover highlighting.
כתאב אלהדאיה אלי פראיץ' אלקלוב - LiveMoses MaimonidesCommentary on the Mishnah
Rambam's Commentary on the Mishnah in its original 12th-century Judeo-Arabic — Tractate Avot with the Eight Chapters (Shemonah Perakim) on the soul and the virtues, and Tractate Sanhedrin including the essay on the 13 Principles of Faith and the World to Come. With working English translations.
שרח אלמשנה - LiveMoses MaimonidesDalālat al-Ḥā'irīn — Moreh Nevukhim
Rambam's Guide of the Perplexed in its 12th-century Judeo-Arabic original — the whole of Part I (chapters 1–28): from 'image and likeness' and Adam's sin through the equivocal terms of place, throne, ascent, sitting, standing, and motion by which Scripture speaks of God, and on to Onkelos's method of removing corporeality. With a working English translation, phrase-by-phrase hover highlighting, and notes on key terms.
דלאלה אלחאירין - LiveSaadia GaonKitāb al-Amānāt — Emunot v'Deot
The opening of Saadia's 10th-century systematic theology — the work that gave Geonic Judaism its philosophical vocabulary: why doubt befalls people in their inquiries and how knowledge dispels it, in the original Judeo-Arabic with a working English translation, phrase-by-phrase hover highlighting, and notes on key terms.
כתאב אלאמאנאת ואלאעתקאדאת - Coming soonYefet ben EliKaraite commentaries on the Bible
The most prolific Karaite exegete of the 10th century, in his lucid Judeo-Arabic prose. Selections from his commentaries on the Pentateuch, Prophets, and Writings.
תפסיר יפת בן עלי - LiveJudah HaleviKitāb al-Khazarī — The Kuzari
The complete Kuzari — all five maqalat — in its original 12th-century Judeo-Arabic, with a working English translation and phrase-by-phrase hover highlighting throughout. Every word carries a tap-to-define dictionary gloss. Maqala I also includes notes on nine key philosophical terms.
כתאב אלרד ואלדליל פי אלדין אלד'ליל