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Maimonides’ principal halachic works, i.e. his Commentary on the Mishnah and the Mishneh Torah are mostly regarded as exoteric. Two main reasons may be adduced in favour of this opinion, which seems to me to be correct.
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Pines, S. (1986). The Philosophical Purport of Maimonides’ Halachic Works and the Purport of The Guide of the Perplexed. In: Pines, S., Yovel, Y. (eds) Maimonides and Philosophy. Archives Internationales D’Histoire Des Idees / International Archives of the History of Ideas, vol 114. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-009-4486-2_1
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