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Abraham Maimonides

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and even while a youth became known as a great scholar. When his father died in 1204 at the age of sixty-nine, and Avraham was only nineteen, Avraham was recognised as the greatest scholar in his community. Thus, he succeeded
372:(Yemen) posed an additional seven questions unto Rabbi Abraham ben Maimonides, preserved in a 15th–16th century document still in manuscript form (pp. 188b–193a), containing mostly the commentary of 1362: 1529: 376:
on Maimonides' legal code of Jewish law. The rare document can be seen at the Hebrew University National Library in Jerusalem, Department of Manuscripts, in microfilm # F-
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are known to have maintained contact with Avraham while he served as head of the Jewish community in Egypt, sending to him some thirteen questions relating to
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Avraham greatly honored the memory of his father, and defended his writings and works against all critics. Due to his influence, a large Egyptian
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when his father was fifty-one years old. The boy was "modest, highly refined and unusually good natured"; he was also noted for his brilliant
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was held by the Maimonides family for four successive generations until the end of the 14th century). After his appointment, the family of
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for at least a century, and he is rightly considered the founder of this pietistic school.
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Abraham Maimonides' Wars of the Lord and the Maimonidean controversy
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are now extant, as well as commentaries on parts of his father's
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Questions & Responsaof Rabbi Avraham, the son of Rambam
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Hebrew-Arabic Commentary on parts of Genesis and Exodus
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Judaism, Sufism, and the Pietists of Medieval Egypt
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Index

Abraham ben Moses ben Maimon
Hebrew
Maimonides
nagid
Egyptian Jewish community

History of the Jews in Egypt
Fustat
Ayyubid-ruled Egypt
Cairo
intellect
Egyptian Jews
physician
Sar Shalom ben Moses
Islamize
Karaite community
Rabbinical Jews
Yemenite Jews
halakha
Milhamoth ha-Shem
his father's philosophical doctrines
The Guide for the Perplexed
Montpellier
Hachmei Provence
Judeo-Arabic
Sufism
pietism
exegesis
Torah
Genesis

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