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Roth, Leon
Is There a Jewish Philosophy?, 03/1999Book Chapter
Maimonides (‘son of Maimon’), Moses; known by the scholastics as Rabbi Moyses or Moyses Judaeus or Moyses Aegyptius, in Hebrew literature as Rambam, also Maimuni. Born Cordova, south (Arabic) Spain, 1138. Left Cordova as a boy of 13 with his family after the seizure of the country by the religiously intolerant Almohades, and after long wanderings finally settled in Egypt where his father, Maimon, died. When his brother David, a pearl merchant and main support of the family, was drowned at sea, he turned to the profession of medicine, becoming in 1170 physician to the viceroy of Egypt. Died 1204.
