TOMB OF MAIMONIDES (TOMB OF MAIMONIDES)

This great scholar of the 1138 th century, also known as Rabi Moshe Ben Maimon or the acronym Rambam, was born in Cordoba in. Driven by the arrival of the Berbers Almohades in 1148, he emigrated with his family in Fez (Morocco), Palestine and Egypt, where he died in Lughod (southern suburb of Cairo) in 1204. Commentator of the Mishnah (Jewish law exegesis), philosopher and physicist, leader of the Egyptian Jewish community, he was also the personal doctor of the son of Saladin. Although his work was challenged by his living, both in the field of philosophy and the law and Jewish ethics, he was recognized after his death as one of the greatest figures of Jewish thought. His tomb, maintained by the Maimonides Heritage Center (MHC), is close to that of his father Maïmon ben Yossef HaDayan, in the old cemetery in the centre of the city.