Moses ben Maimonides

The history of any civilization is not devoid of literary exchanges, which are a natural and inevitable result of civilizations communicating with each other, especially since civilization does not arise in isolation from all other civilizations. When looking at the history of Jewish thought under the Arab-Islamic caliphate, we find that the contact of Jews with Arabs had the greatest impact on Jewish culture adopting modern cognitive horizons that were very different from its traditional cultural product. When looking at the world of Maimonides, we find that although he held the position of head of the Jewish community in Egypt and was busy interpreting many sacred Jewish texts, his mentality was a pure Arab-Islamic mentality, as his philosophical and religious products, whether written in Arabic or in Hebrew, dealt with issues of the self and divine attributes, the creation of the universe and man, the human soul, reparation and choice, resurrection, immortality, and human happiness, those issues that represented in their entirety the axes of Arab philosophy. Islamic. The book of Maimonides, written by Tamar Rudavsky, is an attempt to show the superiority of Arab-Islamic culture over the philosophy and thought of Maimonides. No chapter of this work is without pointing out that his philosophy is a faithful and accurate summary of what the Arab mind produced in the Middle Ages.