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A Short Biography of Moses Maimonides

Author Name:

Moses Maimonides

Born As:

Abu Imran Mussa bin Maimun ibn Abdallah al-Qurtubi al-Israili,Mussa

Other Names:

Born:

30 Mar 1135

Died:

13 Dec 1204




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Philosopher, physician                          
Selected Works:

Commentary on the Mishna - Hebrew Pirush Hamishnayot, written in Arabic.

Sefer Hamitzvot - trans. The Book of Commandments.

Sefer Ha'shamad - letter of Martydom

Mishneh Torah, also known as Sefer Yad ha-Chazaka, a comprehensive code of Jewish law.

Guide for the Perplexed, a philosophical work harmonising and differentiating Aristotle's philosophy and Jewish theology.

Teshuvot, collected correspondence and responsa, including a number of public letters - on resurrection and the after-life, on conversion to other faiths, and Iggereth Teiman - addressed to the oppressed Jewry of Yemen.

Treatise on Logic - Arabic: Makala Fi-Sinat Al-Mantik has been printed 17 times, including editions in Latin - 1527, German - 1805, 1822, 1833, 1828, French - 1935, and English - 1938, and in an abridged Hebrew form.                          
Father Maimun                          
                          
Moses Maimonides is his Greek name.