Moses Maimonides (1135-1204), scholar, physician, and philosopher, was the most influential Jewish thinker of the Middle Ages. In this biography, the work of many years, Herbert Davidson provides an exhaustive guide to Maimonides' life and works. There are separate chapters on rabbinic, philosophical, and medical texts. Prof. Herbert A. Davidson is equally at home in the rabbinic tradition and in the history of philosophy - Greek, Arabic, Jewish, and Latin. This intimate acquaintance with Maimonides' two cultures allows him to offer a comprehensive and contextualized account of Maimonides' entire oeuvre... no one will be able to ignore the forceful argments of Davidson's prudent, balanced, and informed scholarship.