Editing Maimonides (section)

===Death===
{{See also|Tomb of Maimonides}}[[File:Keverambam.jpg|thumb|The [[Tomb of Maimonides]] in [[Tiberias]]]]
Maimonides died on 12 December 1204 (20th of [[Tevet]] 4965) in Fustat. A variety of medieval sources beginning with [[Al-Qifti]] maintain that his body was interred near [[Lake Tiberias]], though there is no contemporary evidence for his removal from Egypt. [[Gedaliah ibn Yahya ben Joseph|Gedaliah ibn Yahya]] records that "He was buried in the [[Upper Galilee]] with elegies upon his gravestone. In the time of [[David Kimhi|[David] Kimhi]], when the sons of [[Belial]] rose up to besmirch [Maimonides] . . . they did evil. They altered his gravestone, which previously had been inscribed 'choicest of the human race (מבחר המין האנושי)', so that instead it read 'the excommunicated heretic (מוחרם ומין)'. But later, after the provocateurs had repented of their act, and praised this great man, a student repaired the gravestone to read 'choicest of the Israelites (מבחר המין הישראלי)'".<ref>''Shalshelet haQabbalah'' (Venice, 1587) f. 33b, MS Guenzberg 652 f. 76a.</ref> Today, Tiberias hosts the [[Tomb of Maimonides]], on which is inscribed "From [[Moses]] to Moses arose none like Moses."<ref name="epitaph">{{cite web |url=https://he.chabad.org/library/article_cdo/aid/1187235 |title=Maimonides |website=he.chabad.org |language=Hebrew |access-date=2 August 2021 |archive-date=1 August 2021 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210801223206/https://he.chabad.org/library/article_cdo/aid/1187235 |url-status=live }}</ref>

Maimonides and his wife, the daughter of Mishael ben Yeshayahu Halevi, had one child who survived into adulthood,<ref>אגרות הרמב"ם מהדורת שילת</ref> [[Abraham Maimonides]], who became recognized as a great scholar. He succeeded Maimonides as Nagid and as court [[physician]] at the age of eighteen. Throughout his career, he defended his father's writings against all critics. The office of Nagid was held by the Maimonides family for four successive generations until the end of the 14th century.

A [[:es:Estatua de Maimónides (Cordoba)|statue of Maimonides]] was erected near the [[Córdoba Synagogue]].

Maimonides is sometimes said to be a descendant of [[King David]], although he never made such a claim.<ref>{{cite book |author1=Sarah E. Karesh |author2=Mitchell M. Hurvitz |title=Encyclopedia of Judaism |year=2005 |publisher=Facts on File |isbn=978-0-8160-5457-2 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=Z2cCZBDm8F8C&pg=PA305 |page=305 |access-date=20 September 2020 |archive-date=25 December 2021 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20211225011734/https://books.google.com/books?id=Z2cCZBDm8F8C&pg=PA305 |url-status=live }}</ref><ref>{{cite book |author=H. J. Zimmels |title=Ashkenazim and Sephardim: Their Relations, Differences, and Problems as Reflected in the Rabbinical Responsa |edition=Revised |year=1997 |publisher=Ktav Publishing House |isbn=978-0-88125-491-4 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=Svzf3uUCFToC&pg=PA283 |page=283 |access-date=20 September 2020 |archive-date=25 December 2021 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20211225011743/https://books.google.com/books?id=Svzf3uUCFToC&pg=PA283 |url-status=live }}</ref>