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 MOSES MAIMONIDES
(in Hebrew: Rav or Rabbi Moshe Ben Maimon, or
"RaMBaM" -- the acronym of his name), was the
most important Jewish philosopher of the
Middle Ages. Maimonides was born in the
Spanish city of Cordoba at a time when about
one-fifth of the people in southern Spain were
Jews. However, Maimonides and his family fled
to Fustat (now Cairo) because of rising
anti-Semitism in Spain. There Maimonides
worked as a physician, but also became a
scholar of Jewish law and a philosopher. Among
other works, Maimonides wrote "The Guide of
the Perplexed," a treatment of several
philosophical issues. His attempts to
synthesize Jewish revelation and Aristotelean
philosophy influenced the ideas of many
Christian thinkers including St. Albert the
Great and St. Thomas Aquinas. He became
physician to the Sultan Saladin and a communal
leader of Egyptian Jewry, and he became an
important figure in the codification of Jewish
law. In his later years Maimonides became
famous throughout Europe. England's King
Richard asked him to be his Royal Physician,
but Maimonides preferred to stay in Cairo and
pursue his work there. The "Daily Prayer Of A
Physician" is attributed to Maimonides, but
was probably written by Marcus Herz, a German
physician, pupil of Immanual Kant, and
physician to Moses Mendelssohn. It first
appeared in print in about 1793. |
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