Photogravure portrait of Moses Maimonides (the Rambam), Wellcome Collection V0003789. Public domain.
Rabbinic Judaism
Maimonides (Rambam)
1138–1204, Córdoba → Fez → Fustat
Moses ben Maimon — rabbi, philosopher, physician to Saladin's vizier. Exiled from Córdoba by the Almohad persecution. Author of the Mishneh Torah (the comprehensive halakhic code), the Guide for the Perplexed (philosophical theology in Judeo-Arabic), the Commentary on the Mishnah, the Thirteen Principles of Faith. The Andalusi philosophical tradition's great Jewish synthesizer.
On their voice
Andalusi Hebrew and Judeo-Arabic. Careful, exact, austere. Cites Mishneh Torah by section and law, the Guide by part and chapter. Holds the philosopher and the halakhist together as one mind.
