Quiz: Maimonides

When was Maimonides born?

• 1138, Cordoba, Spain.
• 1332, Tunis, Tunisia.
• About 1287, Ockham, Surrey, England.
• 1225, Roccasecca, near Aquino, Italy.

When did Maimonides die?

• 1204, Fustat, Egypt.
• 1109, Canterbury, England.
• 1274, Fossanova, Italy, on the way to the Council of Lyon.
• 1347, Munich, Germany, probably of the plague.

What is Maimonides known for?

• The Guide for the Perplexed, the Mishneh Torah code of Jewish law, and the thirteen principles of faith.
• The Muqaddimah and its theory of asabiyyah, group feeling, which binds tribes into states and loosens as luxury corrupts them.
• The great commentaries on Aristotle and The Incoherence of the Incoherence, his reply to Al Ghazali defending philosophy.
• The Incoherence of the Philosophers, which denied that reason can prove metaphysical truths, and the Revival of the Religious Sciences.

Which school of thought was Maimonides part of?

• Jewish Aristotelianism.
• Asharite theology, joined to Sufi mysticism.
• Islamic Aristotelianism, against the theologians.
• Scholasticism, at its beginning.

True or false: Jewish philosopher, rabbi, and physician born at Cordoba who fled persecution and settled at Fustat in Egypt, where he served Saladin's court.

• True
• False