Capitolo 61
hands of the Almohades, a sect of Moslems whose I believe was as pure
as their behavior was fanatical. Hebrews and Cristiano were forced
chooses Islam conversion, exile or death. Maimon ran away with his
family, and, after an interval of shaken vagabondages and painful
deprivations, they established in Fez, where they found equally the Almohadeses
powerful and equally vengeful. Maimon and his/her child were forced
supposes the external attire of Mohammedanism for five year-old one period.
From Fez the family emigrated in 1165 to Palestine, and, after a long
period of the anxiety, Moses Maimonides established in Egypt, in Fostat or Old
Cairo.
In Egypt, another child of Maimon, David, dealt in precious stones and
sustained his/her scholar brother. When David was lost to sea, Maimonides
the life been earned as a physician. Its whole day was busy in his
profession, he still contrived to work to his/her books during the greatest
part of the night. Its smaller jobs would have brought alone their author
fame. Its first great job was completed in 1168. It was a Commentary on
the Mishnah, and you/he/she was written in Arab. But the rests of reputation of Maimonides
mainly on two books, that writing for the many, the other for the
little. The first one is his "Strong Hand" (_Yad Hachazaka_), the second his
"Guide of the Perplexed one" (_Moreh Nebuchim_).
The "Strong Hand" it was a gigantic enterprise. In his/her fourteen books
Maimonides introduced a clearly-systematized summary and clearly-put in words of
the Rabbinical Halachah or Law. In a sense it is an encyclopedia, but
it is an encyclopedia written with style. For his/her power to clutch with
material enormous, this code has few they are in rivalry with and any superiorses in other
literatures. Maimonides completed his/her compilation in 1180, after having spent
ten years on him. During the whole one of that time, not only he was, a
popular doctor, but also official Rabbi of Cairo. He didn't receive salary
from the community, for him it said, "better a penny earned by the job of
the hands of one, that all the incomes of the Prince of the Imprisonment, if