18th-century portrait of Maimonides, from the Thesaurus
antiquitatum sacrarum by Blaisio Ugolino Córdoba, Almoravid
Empire (present-day Spain) |Died||12 December 1204 (aged 69)
Fostat, Egypt, or Cairo, Egypt |School||Jewish philosophy,
Jewish law, Jewish ethics| Mosheh ben Maimon (משה בן מימון),
called Moses Maimonides (pron.: // my-MON-i-deez) and also known
as Mūsā ibn Maymūn (Arabic: موسى بن ميمون), or RaMBaM (רמב"ם –
Hebrew acronym for "Rabbi Mosheh Ben Maimon"), was a preeminent
medieval Spanish, Sephardic Jewish philosopher and one of the
most prolific and influential Torah scholars and physicians of
the Middle Ages. He was born in Córdoba (present-day Spain),
Almoravid Empire on Passover Eve, 1135, and died in Egypt on
December 12, 1204. He was a rabbi, physician, and philosopher in
Morocco and Egypt. Although his writings on Jewish law and
ethics were met with acclaim and gratitude from most Jews, even
as far off as Iraq and Yemen, and he rose to be the revered head
of the Jewish community in Egypt, t