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 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 - LiveYaʿqūb al-QirqisānīKitāb al-Anwār wa'l-Marāqib
The opening of the great 10th-century Karaite summa — its manifesto that religious obligations must be reached by inquiry and rational speculation (baḥth wa-naẓar), and the truth accepted from whoever holds it. Shown in the original Arabic (ed. Nemoy) with a working English translation, phrase-by-phrase hover highlighting, and notes on key terms.
كتاب الأنوار والمراقب - LiveJudah HaleviKitāb al-Khazarī — The Kuzari
The opening of Halevi's 12th-century defense of Judaism: the Khazar king's dream and the Aristotelian philosopher's answer, in the original Judeo-Arabic with a working English translation, phrase-by-phrase hover highlighting, and notes on key terms.
כתאב אלרד ואלדליל פי אלדין אלד'ליל