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Rabbi Moshe ben Maimon (Hebrew: רבי משה בן מיימון; Arabic: موسى بن ميمون بن عبد الله القرطبي الإسرائيلي / Mussa bin Maimun ibn Abdallah al-Kurtubi al-Israili; March 30, 1135 – December 13, 1204),...


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Name: Maimonides
Variant Name: Moses ben Maimon
Birth Date: March 30, 1135
Death Date: December 13, 1204
Place of Birth: Cordova, Spain
Place of Death: al-Fustât, Egypt
Gender: Male
Occupations: philosopher

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Biography of Maimonides
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Maimonides (1135-1204), or Moses ben Maimon, was the greatest Jewish philosopher of the Middle Ages. His commentaries on, and codification of, the rabbinic tradition established him as a major religious authority in Judaism. Maimonides was born at...
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Biography of Moses Maimonides
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The controversies generated by his major philosophical work, Dalalat al-Ha'irin (Guide of the Perplexed, 1190), from the time of its appearance in the late twelfth century to the present, attest to the preeminent position held by Moses Maimonides in...


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Maimonides [addendum] Summary
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Maimonides [addendum] Since Shlomo Pines's entry, scholars have come to accept 1138, not 1135, as the year of Maimonides' birth. Some scholars also believe that the youthful treatise on logic ( Millot ha-Higayon ) is not by Maimonides....
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Moses Ben Maimon Summary
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1135-1204 Spanish Philosopher and Physician Moses ben Maimon, also known as Maimonides (or by the acronym RaM-BaM), had a tremendous impact on Judaism and philosophy, as well as medicine. His most significant contribution, however, is arguably in the...
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Maimonides (1135–1204) Summary
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Maimonides(1135–1204) Maimonides was the most celebrated Jewish philosopher of the Middle Ages. "Maimonides" is the Latinized cognomen of Moses son of Maimon. Also called RaMBaM, the acronym for Rabbi Moses ben Maimon, he was born...
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Maimonides Information
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Moses Maimonides (March 30 1135 Córdoba, Spain – December 13 1204 Fostat, Egypt), was a rabbi, physician, and philosopher in Andalusia, Morocco and Egypt during the Middle Ages. He was one of the various medieval Jewish philosophers who also...


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The Washington Post
The Doctor Is Still In; Medieval Rabbi-Healer Maimonides Linked Body, Soul
11/26/2005: 2,126 words, approx. 7 pages
No one in his right mind today would willingly submit to the medical ministrations of Moses Maimonides, the great 12th-century Jewish doctor and philosopher. Maimonides, very much a man of the medieval world, possessed a medical wisdom that was little more than a mix...
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The Boston Globe
Basketball Is Fun Here Maimonides' Program Has No Pressure
02/21/1989: 713 words, approx. 2 pages
When Maimonides School started its Division 3 basketball program three years ago, there were no illusions of a state title or even a league championship. Instead, the program was started as a diversion from the 8 a.m. to 6 p.m. academic and religious program...
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Institute to get ancient bible parchment
11/9/2007: 545 words, approx. 2 pages
The family of man who held a fragment of a more than 1,000-year-old manuscript of the Hebrew Bible for six decades as a good luck charm will present it to a Jerusalem institute next week, officials said Thursday.The parchment, about "the size of a credit...
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Hand-stealing doctor gets probation
3/2/2007: 331 words, approx. 1 pages
A young doctor who admitted to severing a hand from a cadaver as a medical student, then giving it to a stripper, was sentenced Thursday to 15 months of probation.Ahmed Rashed, 27, pleaded guilty last month to a reduced charge of third-degree theft. If he...
 


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