Maimonides

Tags: Philosopher.

Mosheh ben Maimon (משה בן מימון) called Moses Maimonides (/maɪˈmɒnɪdiːz/ my-MON-i-deez) and also known as Mūsā ibn Maymūn (Arabic: موسى بن ميمون‎) or RaMBaM (רמבם – Hebrew acronym for Rabbeinu Mosheh Ben Maimon – English translation: Our Rabbi/Teacher Moses Son [of] Maimon) was a preeminent medieval Spanish Sephardic Jewish philosopher astronomer and one of the most prolific and influential Torah scholars and physicians of the Middle Ages.

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birth date

1137-01-01T00:00:00+02:00

birth place

Almoravid dynasty, Córdoba Andalusia

death date

1204-12-12

death place

Cairo, Fustat, Egypt

era

Medieval philosophy

influenced

Baruch Spinoza, Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz, Isaac Newton, James Joyce, Thomas Aquinas, Emmanuel Levinas, Jean Bodin, Leo Strauss, Michael Friedländer

influenced by

Aristotle, Avicenna, Talmud, Avempace, Averroes, Al-Farabi, Al-Ghazali

LCCN Id

n/78/96039

philosophicalSchool

Halakha, Jewish ethics, Jewish philosophy