Moses Maimonides, also known as Rabbi Moshe ben Maimon or the acronym the Rambam (Hebrew: רבי משה בן מימון; Hebrew acronym: רמב"ם; Arabic: موسى ابن ميمون Mūsā ibn Maymūn, short for أبو عمران موسى بن عبيد الله ميمون القرطبي Abū ʿImrān Mūsā bin ʿUbaidallāh Maimūn al-Qurṭubī), was born in Cordoba, Spain on March 30, 1135, and died in Egypt on December 13, 1204.
He was the preeminent medieval Jewish philosopher and one of the greatest Torah schol...
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Moses Maimonides, also known as Rabbi Moshe ben Maimon or the acronym the Rambam (Hebrew: רבי משה בן מימון; Hebrew acronym: רמב"ם; Arabic: موسى ابن ميمون Mūsā ibn Maymūn, short for أبو عمران موسى بن عبيد الله ميمون القرطبي Abū ʿImrān Mūsā bin ʿUbaidallāh Maimūn al-Qurṭubī), was born in Cordoba, Spain on March 30, 1135, and died in Egypt on December 13, 1204.
He was the preeminent medieval Jewish philosopher and one of the greatest Torah scholars of the Middle Ages. He worked as a rabbi, physician, and philosopher in Spain, Morocco and Egypt. With the contemporary Muslim sage Averroes, he promoted and developed the philosophical tradition of Aristotle. As a result, Maimonides and Averroes would gain a prominent and controversial influence in the West, where Aristotelian thought had been lost for centuries. Albert the Great and Thomas Aquinas were notable Western readers of Maimonides.
One of the central tenets of Maimonides's philosophy is that it is impossible for the truths...
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