Maimonides
Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2007
MAIMONIDES mimon idez or Moses ben Maimon mi m n, 1135 1204, Jewish scholar, physician, and philosopher, the most influential...principles of creation, and elucidated baffling metaphysical and religious problems. The Moreh Nevukhim, which reflects Maimonidess great knowledge of Aristotelian philosophy and attempts to reconcile it with the tenets of Jewish theology, dominated...