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Mosheh, Yehoshuah, Mohammad: Abraham's children! You can't separate them from each other anymore because they grew up together ...
Maimonides' fame extended far beyond the confines of the Moslem world and he inclined an invitation from Richard the Lion-Hearted to become his physician. As a result of the Muwahhid persecution he left Spain about 1165 and settled with his family in Fostat, a suburb of Cairo, Egypt, where he was appointed physician at the court of Saladin. Ten medical works of Maimonides all written in Judaeo-Arabic have been translated into Hebrew, some into Latin and other European tongues. These have exerted great influence upon European medical science. Israeli scholars have edited several of his works which are still in Arabic and Hebrew manuscripts. He also wrote important medical works under the title "Aphorisms According to Galen and Aphorisms of Hippocrates." A very popular work of his during the Middle Ages concerned poisons and their antidotes: all these writings lost their medieval aspect for so much of them are in accord with modern practice. His works on medicine and antidotes were often quoted by writers in the 13th & 14th centuries. In his treatises Maimonides relied more on diet than on drugs, & advised moderation in all things, even in the choice of medicine. He considered the study of medicine a very important factor of Jewish ethics. To him "Medicine teaches man to restrict his boundless lusts which undermine his health and to choose the right manner of living. It helps to maintain the fitness of the body and enables him to purify and raise his strength to an uplifted ethical plane. It leads man to his higher destiny and thereby enables him to recognize the truth and bliss." Ibn abi-Usaibi'ah (1203-1270), the great Arabic historian of medicine, a contemporary of Maimonides, closes his biographical sketch of Maimonides with a poem by the poet Al-Said bin-Sina Almulk: "Galen's art heals only the body,
But Abu-Imran's the body and the soul. His knowledge made him the physician of the century. He could cure with his wisdom the disease of ignorance. If the moon would submit to his art, He would free her from her spots at the time of full moon, Would relieve her of her monthly ailments And at the time of her conjunction, save her from waning. Maimonides was not only a philosopher and physician of distinction but was a philosopher in medicine and a physician in ethics and philosophy. His spirit of free enquiry was carried forward after the Jewish Golden Age of Spain into the Ottoman Empire and Italy and later on into the Netherlands. Just like you can't separate Christianity from Judaism & both of them from Islam, we can't fathom the existence of the Netherlands from Israel and Arabia (or the rest of the world): they belong together!!!