In addition to being one of the premier scholars of Islamic and Jewish philosophy, Prof. Emeritus Joel Kraemer was as a master pedagogue who colleagues said “subscribed to the adage that ‘God lives in detail.’”

Known for his work on the cultural transmission of the intellectual heritage of Greek antiquity to the worlds of Islamicate civilization, Kraemer was best known for his authoritative biography on the 12th-century prophet Maimonides—a topic he first began studying at age 14.

The John Henry Barrows Professor Emeritus in the Divinity School, Kraemer died Oct. 11 in Chicago after a protracted illness.

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