Maimonides produced a
large number of writings
of which the most important
is without doubt his masterwork,
written in Arabic: Dalalat al-Har'iri
known in Hebrew as : Moreh Nevukhim
and in English as The Guide of the Perplexed.
He worked indefatigably. . .Maimonides
himself died in Fustat in 1204, probably
of exhaustion. He was sixty-six years old.
Jews around the world mourned
for their loss, and in Fustat itself,
both Jews and Arabs went
into a 3-day public mourning, while in
Jerusalem, the rabbinical authorities
proclaimed a general fast. Maimonides'
body was taken to Tiberias on the Sea
of Galilee (Lake Kinneret), where his
tomb quickly became a place of pilgrimage.
His books have ever since been a cornerstone
of Jewish thought and Jewish identity, and
his medical knowledge has secured for him
a distinguished place in the history of
medicine.
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