Maimonides

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Jewish legal scholar Talmudist biblical commentator halakhic authority human jurist medieval Jewish philosopher philosopher physician rabbi

Maimonides was a medieval Jewish philosopher, legal scholar, and physician whose works, especially "The Guide for the Perplexed," profoundly shaped Jewish thought and influenced later rationalist philosophers.

Aliases (5)

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Predicate	Object
instanceOf	Jewish legal scholar → Talmudist → biblical commentator → halakhic authority → human → jurist → medieval Jewish philosopher → philosopher → physician → rabbi →
alternateName	Moshe ben Maimon → Rabbi Moshe ben Maimon → Rambam →
birthDate	1138 →
birthName	Moses ben Maimon →
birthPlace	Almohad Caliphate → Córdoba → al-Andalus →
burialPlace	Tiberias →
citizenship	Almohad Caliphate → Ayyubid Sultanate →
deathDate	1204 →
deathPlace	Ayyubid Egypt → Cairo → Fustat →
era	High Middle Ages →
ethnicGroup	Jewish people →
fieldOfWork	Aristotelian philosophy → Jewish law → medicine → philosophy of religion →
influenced	Baruch Spinoza → Gersonides → Joseph Albo → Thomas Aquinas → modern Jewish thought →
influencedBy	Al-Farabi → Aristotle → Avicenna → Islamic philosophy → Saadia Gaon →
languageOfWork	Hebrew → Judeo-Arabic →
mainWork	Commentary on the Mishnah → Mishneh Torah → The Guide for the Perplexed → Thirteen Principles of Faith →
movement	medieval Jewish rationalism →
notableIdea	codification of halakha → negative theology → rationalist interpretation of Judaism →
notableWorkOn	Jewish law codification → medical treatises → philosophical theology →
positionHeld	Nagid of the Jewish community in Egypt → court physician to the Ayyubid rulers →
religion	Judaism →

Referenced by (37)

Subject (surface form when different)	Predicate
Al-Farabi → Aristotle → Avicenna → Emunot ve-Deot → Rif → Saadia Gaon → Saʿīd ibn Yūsuf al-Fayyūmī →	influenced
Abraham Abulafia → Baruch Spinoza → Joseph Karo → Nachmanides → Shulchan Aruch → St. Thomas Aquinas → Yosef Karo →	influencedBy
Dalālat al-ḥāʾirīn → Dalālat al-ḥāʾirīn ("Moses Maimonides") → Guide for the Perplexed → Guide for the Perplexed ("Moses Maimonides") → Mishneh Torah → Mishneh Torah ("Moses ben Maimon") →	author
Maimonides ("Moshe ben Maimon") → Maimonides ("Rabbi Moshe ben Maimon") → Maimonides ("Rambam") →	alternateName
Tomb of Maimonides ("Moses Maimonides") →	associatedWith
Maimonides ("Moses ben Maimon") →	birthName
Tomb of Maimonides ("Moses Maimonides") →	burialPlaceOf
Beit Yosef ("Rambam") →	cites
Shema Yisrael →	commentedOnBy
reasons for the commandments (ta'amei ha-mitzvot) →	discussedBy
Yemenite Jews →	followsHalakhicAuthority
Sephardi Jews →	halakhicAuthority
Rishonim →	includes
Kitāb al-Amānāt wa-l-Iʿtiqādāt →	influenceOn
Tomb of Maimonides ("Moses Maimonides") →	namedAfter
Al-Qarawiyyin University →	notableAlumnus
Judeo-Arabic →	notableAuthor
Samuel ibn Tibbon ("Moses Maimonides") →	translatedWorkOf