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...

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....

. Moses Maimonides, who was born in Cordova, Spain, in 1135, and died in Cairo, Egypt, in 1204, was the greatest medieval Jewish theologian and one of the most important medieval Aristotelians. The later Latin scholastics called him Rabbi Moyses...

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...

(born March 30, 1135, Córdoba—died Dec. 13, 1204, Egypt) Jewish philosopher, jurist, and physician. He was obliged to practice his faith secretly after a revolutionary and fanatical Islamic sect, the Almohads, captured Córdoba. To...

(Moses b. Maimon. Ramban) (1135–1204) Codifier and philosopher. Maimonides’ great *Code of Law, the Mishneh Torah (‘Repetition of the law’) was written ‘to make the entire *Oral Law…accessible to young and...

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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...