Moses Maimonides

Maimonides Moses ben Maimon
18th-century portrait of Maimonides
Born	30 March or 6 April 1135 Possibly born 28 March or 4 April 1138 Córdoba, Almoravid Empire (present-day Spain)
Died	12 December 1204 (aged 69) Fostat or Cairo, Egypt
Era	Medieval Philosophy
Region	Jewish philosophy
School	Jewish law, Jewish ethics
Influences Talmud, Aristotle, al-Farabi, Avicenna, Avempace, Averroes, Algazel
Influenced Jeremiah Stamler, Spinoza, Aquinas, Joyce, Bodin, Leibniz, Newton,Strauss, Friedländer, Levinas
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30 March or 6 April 1135

Rabbi Moses ben Maimon (מֹשֶׁה בֶּן־מַימוֹן‎ Mōšeh bēn-Maymōn; Arabic: موسى بن ميمون‎‎ Mūsā bin Maymūn), commonly known as Maimonides /maɪˈmɒnᵻ.diːz/ (my-MON-i-deez; Greek: Μαϊμωνίδης Maïmōnídēs), and also referred to by the acronym Rambam /ˌrɑːmˈbɑːm/ (רמב״ם‎, for Rabbeinu Mōšeh bēn Maimon, "Our Rabbi Moses son of Maimon"), was a medieval Sephardic Jewish philosopher who became one of the most prolific and influential Torah scholars of the Middle Ages. In his time, he was also a preeminent astronomer and physician. Born in Cordova, Almoravid Empire (present-day Spain) on Passover Eve, 1135 or 1138, he worked as a rabbi, physician, and philosopher in Morocco and Egypt. He died in Egypt on December 12, 1204, whence his body was taken to the lower Galilee and buried in Tiberias.