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Rabbi Moses Ben Maimon Maimonides
MAIMONIDES, RABBI MOSES BEN MAIMON also known by the acronym RaMBaM (b. C Read more |
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Maimonides
Maimonides or Moses ben Maimon , 1135-1204, Jewish scholar, physician, and philosopher, the most influential Jewish thinker of the Middle Ages, b. Córdoba, Spain, d. Cairo. He is sometimes called Rambam, from the initials of the words Rabbi Moses ben Maimon. His organization and... Read more |
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Moses ben Israel Isserles
Moses ben Israel Isserles , c.1525-1572, Polish rabbi, annotator, and philosopher, b. Kraków, known as Remah. He is best known for his glosses on the code of Jewish law of Joseph ben Ephraim Caro . Isserles became chief rabbi in Kraków, where he established a yeshiva. In 1553 he built... Read more |
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Salomon Maimon
MAIMON, SALOMON(1753–1800) Born in 1753 in a small village in Lithuania, Shlomo ben-Yehoshua later named himself "Maimon" after the great medieval Jewish philosopher Moses Maimonides. After being married at the age of eleven and fathering a child at fourteen, Maimon left his native country... Read more |
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Maimonides, Moses
Maimonides, Moses (1135–1204) Jewish philosopher, Hebrew scholar, and physician, b. Spain. As a youth he was attracted to Aristotelian... |
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philosophy
...Greeks pervaded the thought of Muslim philosophers, such as Avicenna and Averroës, and the Spanish-born Jew, Moses Maimonides. In the work of scholastic philosophers, such as Abélard, Albertus Magnus, Saint Thomas Aquinas and William... |
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Maimonides, Moses
Maimonides, Moses, Moses b. Maimon, or Rambam (1135–1204). Jewish philosopher and codifier. Maimonides grew up in Cordova, but as a result of persecution, the family eventually... |
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Moses ben Maimon
Moses ben Maimon (Jewish philosopher): see MAIMONIDES, MOSES. |
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Abraham ben Moses ben Maimon
Abraham ben Moses ben Maimon (1186–1237 CE). Leader of Egyptian Jewry, philosopher, and son of Maimonides. He introduced various new ritual practices, influenced by the Muslim Sūfīs, and therefore aroused strong opposition. He... |
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Maimuna
Maimuna. Celebration among some Jews (especially in or from N. Africa) of the last day of Passover. Maimuna is celebrated in many eastern Jewish communities with special foods and picnics. Traditionally it is also the anniversary of the death of Moses Maimonides' father. |
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Moses ben Joshua of Narbonne
Moses ben Joshua of Narbonne (1300–62). French Jewish philosopher. Among other works, his commentary on Maimonides' Guide to the Perplexed was well known and was printed with the original text (ed. I. Euchel, 1791). |
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Isserles, Moses ben Israel
Isserles, Moses ben Israel or Rema (c.1530–72). Jewish legal authority. Isserles...gained a worldwide reputation for his responsa, being known as ‘the Maimonides of Polish Jewry’. Although he aroused opposition for his emphasis... |
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Naḥmanides, Moses ben Naḥman
Naḥmanides, Moses ben Naḥman, or Ramban (1194–1270). Spanish Jewish philosopher...he tried to reach a compromise, on the one hand condemning the way Maimonides' writings had been used; on the other, arguing against the ḥerem... |
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Moreh Nevukhim
Moreh Nevukhim (philosophical work): see MAIMONIDES, MOSES. |
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Messianic movements
...particular saw many messianic movements, possibly induced by Crusader violence. One claimant, Moses Al-Dari, was even admired by Maimonides, and David Alroy persuaded the sophisticated Jews of Baghdad of his authenticity. Abraham b. Samuel... |
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Maimonidean controversy
...halted by the burning of Maimonides' books by the Christian...continued in the East by Maimonides' son, Abraham, although the desecration of Maimonides' tomb in Tiberias was...disputes as that between Moses Isserles and Solomon b... |
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Moses Maimonides: The Man and His Works.(Book review)
Moses Maimonides: The Man and His Works, by Herbert...publication of a comprehensive biography of Maimonides by a scholar of Herbert Davidson's...tremendous range of disciplines in which Maimonides wrote--Halakhist, philosopher... |
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The Mind of Maimonides.(Moses ben Maimon)
...twelfth century and Moses Maimonides. Next month: Romanus...The Editors About Moses Maimonides there is an old Jewish...His actual name was Moses son of Rabbi Maimon the Spaniard, "Maimonides" being the name his... |
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The Medical Legacy of Moses Maimonides
The Medical Legacy of Moses Maimonides Fred Rosner Hoboken, NJ: KTAV Publishing, 1998 ISBN...useful appellation. Certainly deserving of the title, Moses ben Maimon (known as Maimonides in English) was born a Spanish Jew in 1135. As Maimonides... |
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The Moses of Cairo.(Maimonides: The Life and World of One of Civilization's...
JOEL L. KRAEMER. Maimonides: The Life and World of One of Civilization...assiduously to eliminate himself." Moses Maimonides crafted in his major works on Jewish...Kraemer's definitive biography of Maimonides is an act of patient and impeccable... |
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Maimonides, then and now.(Moses Maimonides )
...anniversary of the death of Maimonides have examined and assessed...Davidson's encompassing Moses Maimonides, the Man and his Works...roles he pursued. Rabbi Moses ben Maimon (RaMBaM, Maimonides), wore many turbans. He... |
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MOSES REDIVIVUS.('Maimonides: The Life and World of One of Civilization's...
MOSES REDIVIVUS Joel L. Kraemer Maimonides: The Life and...a biography of Maimonides that is at once...intellectual core. Moses ben Maimon, physician...of the law of Moses our Master and...Aristotle viewed it, Maimonides ... |
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Maimonides, Moses: Maimonides: The Life and World of One of Civilization's...
Maimonides, Moses Maimonides: The Life and World of One of Civilization's Greatest Minds. Joel L. Kraemer. New York: Doubleday, 2009. 628 pp. 21.85 [pounds sterling]. Reaching out "to the general reader," Kraemer "employs strong... |
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On poisons and the protection against lethal drugs; a parallel Arabic-English...
...lethal drugs; a parallel Arabic-English edition. Maimonides, Moses. Trans. by Gerrit Bos. Brigham Young U. Press 2009 373 pages $49.95 Hardcover Medical works of Moses Maimonides RA1201 Towering Cairo-based Jewish scholar Maimonides... |
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Maimonides, Moses. Medical Aphorisms: Treatises 6-9.(Book review)
MAIMONIDES, Moses. Medical Aphorisms: Treatises 6...medicine--Hippocrates, Galen, and Maimonides. Each was revered for his clinical...with quasi-canonical reverence. Maimonides (1125-1204), the great medieval... |
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Maimonides on divine knowledge--Moses of Narbonne's Averroist reading.(Moses...
In various writings Maimonides claims that God's knowledge...Gersonides, 1288-1344), Maimonides was compelled by religious...Aristotelian one. By contrast, Moses of Narbonne (Narboni, d. 1362) found Maimonides's views on divine knowledge... |
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