Editing Maimonides (section)

===Nagid===
[[File:Maimonides bas-relief in the U.S. House of Representatives chamber cropped.jpg|thumb|left|[[Bas relief]] of Maimonides in the [[United States House of Representatives]]]]
Around 1171, Maimonides was appointed the {{transliteration|he|[[Nagid]]}} of the Egyptian Jewish community.<ref name=S.D./> Arabist [[Shelomo Dov Goitein]] believes the leadership he displayed during the ransoming of the Crusader captives led to this appointment.<ref>Cohen, ''Poverty and Charity in the Jewish Community of Medieval Egypt'', p. 115</ref> However he was replaced by [[Sar Shalom ben Moses]] in 1173. Over the controversial course of Sar Shalom's appointment, during which Sar Shalom was accused of [[Farm (revenue leasing)|tax farming]], Maimonides excommunicated and fought with him for several years until Maimonides was appointed Nagid in 1195. A work known as "Megillat Zutta" was written by [[Abraham ben Hillel]], who writes a scathing description of Sar Shalom while praising Maimonides as "the light of east and west and unique master and marvel of the generation."<ref>{{Cite book|last=Baron|first=Salo Wittmayer|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=0E_jEhTQpGkC&q=Megillat+Zutta&pg=PA215|title=A Social and Religious History of the Jews: High Middle Ages, 500–1200|date=1952|publisher=Columbia University Press|isbn=978-0-231-08843-5|page=215|language=en|access-date=16 November 2020|archive-date=25 December 2021|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20211225011741/https://books.google.com/books?id=0E_jEhTQpGkC&q=Megillat+Zutta&pg=PA215|url-status=live}}</ref><ref>{{Cite journal|last=Rustow|first=Marina|date=1 October 2010|title=Sar Shalom ben Moses ha-Levi|url=https://referenceworks.brillonline.com/entries/encyclopedia-of-jews-in-the-islamic-world/sar-shalom-ben-moses-ha-levi-SIM_0019250|journal=Encyclopedia of Jews in the Islamic World|language=en|access-date=17 June 2020|archive-date=18 June 2020|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200618184702/https://referenceworks.brillonline.com/entries/encyclopedia-of-jews-in-the-islamic-world/sar-shalom-ben-moses-ha-levi-SIM_0019250|url-status=live}}</ref>