Maimonides studied Torah under his father, who had in turn studied under Rabbi Joseph ibn Migash, a student of Isaac Alfasi. At the end of his commentary on the Mishna, however, a slightly different genealogy is presented: Moses son of Maimon the Judge, son of Joseph the Wise, son of Isaac the Judge, son of Joseph the Judge, son of Obadiah the Judge, son of Solomon the Rabbi, son of Obadiah the Judge. His ancestry, going back four generations, is given in his Iggeret Teiman ( Epistle to Yemen), as Moses son of Maimon the Judge ( hadayan), son of Joseph the Wise ( Hebrew: הֶחָכָם, romanized: he-chakham), son of Isaac the Rabbi ( Hebrew: הָרָב, romanized: harav), son of Obadiah the Judge. Aaron ha-Kohen, later wrote that he had traced Maimonides' descent back to Simeon ben Judah ha-Nasi from the Davidic line. His father Maimon ben Joseph, was a Spanish dayyan (Jewish judge). Maimonides was born 1138 (or 1135) in Córdoba, Andalusia, in the Muslim-ruled Almoravid Empire, during what some scholars consider to be the end of the golden age of Jewish culture in the Iberian Peninsula, after the first centuries of the Moorish rule. Biography įurther information: History of the Jews in Egypt § Arab rule (641 to 1250) Early years The dominion of the Almohad Caliphate at its greatest extent, c. In Greek, the Hebrew ben ('son of') becomes the patronymic suffix -ides, forming Μωησής Μαϊμονίδης "Moses Maimonides". In Medieval Hebrew he was usually called ר"ם, short for "our Rabbi Moshe", but mostly he is called רמב"ם, short for "our Rabbi, Moshe son of Maimon" and pronounced Rambam. Maimonides referred to himself as "Moses, son of Rabbi Maimon the Spaniard" ( Hebrew: משה ברבי מימון הספרדי). Influenced by Aristotle, Al-Farabi, Ibn Sina, and his contemporary Ibn Rushd, he became a prominent philosopher and polymath in both the Jewish and Islamic worlds.
Īside from being revered by Jewish historians, Maimonides also figures very prominently in the history of Islamic and Arab sciences and he is mentioned extensively in studies. He is sometimes known as הנשר הגדול ( "haNesher haGadol" The Great Eagle). His fourteen-volume Mishneh Torah still carries significant canonical authority as a codification of Halacha. He was posthumously acknowledged as one of the foremost rabbinic decisors and philosophers in Jewish history, and his copious work comprises a cornerstone of Jewish scholarship. The Tomb of Maimonides, one possible site of his burial, is a popular pilgrimage and tourist site. He died in Fustat, Egypt and was buried in Tiberias, according to Jewish tradition. Yet, while Maimonides rose to become the revered head of the Jewish community in Egypt, his writings also had vociferous critics, particularly in Spain. Born in Córdoba within the Almoravid Empire (present-day Spain), on Passover eve, 1138 (or 1135), he worked as a rabbi, physician and philosopher in Morocco and Egypt.ĭuring his lifetime, most Jews greeted Maimonides' writings on Jewish law and ethics with acclaim and gratitude, even as far away as Iraq and Yemen. In his time, he was also a preeminent astronomer and physician, serving as the personal physician of Saladin. Moses ben Maimon (1138–1204), commonly known as Maimonides ( / m aɪ ˈ m ɒ n ɪ d iː z/) and also referred to by the acronym Rambam ( Hebrew: רמב״ם), was a Sephardic Jewish philosopher who became one of the most prolific and influential Torah scholars of the Middle Ages.
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