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(mī-mŏnĭ-dēz′), Moses Originally Moses ben Maimon. Known as "Rambam." 1135?-1204.
(mī-mŏnĭ-dēz′), Moses Originally Moses ben Maimon. Known as "Rambam." 1135?-1204. Spanish-born Egyptian physician, rabbi, and philosopher who codified the Talmud in the Mishneh Torah (1170-1180) and attempted to reconcile Aristotelian philosophy with Jewish theology in Guide for the Perplexed (1190).