# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/maimon-ben-yossef-hadayan
# Generated: 2026-09-02T01:38:21.096Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/maimon-ben-yossef-hadayan"
name: "Maimon ben Yossef HaDayan"
slug: "maimon-ben-yossef-hadayan"
description: "Rabbi Maimon ben Joseph HaDayan was an exegete, moralist and dayyan (judge) from al-Andalus. He is best known as the father of Maimonides. His teacher was the respected scholar Joseph ibn Migash. He authored a commentary, in Arabic, on the Pentateuch, and also wrote on Jewish ritual and festival law."
tagline: "Spanish exegete, moralist and dayyan"
image: "https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/b/b8/Beginning_of_the_Arabic_text_%28in_Hebrew_letters%29_of_Maimon_Ben_Joseph%27s_Epistle_of_Consolation_to_the_Jews_of_Fes.png/330px-Beginning_of_the_Arabic_text_%28in_Hebrew_letters%29_of_Maimon_Ben_Joseph%27s_Epistle_of_Consolation_to_the_Jews_of_Fes.png"
gender: "male"
birthDate: "1110"
deathDate: "1170"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
scores:
  popularity:           43.48
  momentum:             16.32911392405063
  historical:           3.285998666666667
  currentAttention:     85.62691131498472
  sourceConfidence:     20
  profileCompleteness:  38
  trendDirection:       "BREAKOUT"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
sources:
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Maimon_ben_Joseph"
    title: "Maimon ben Joseph"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ma%C3%AFmon_ben_Yossef_HaDayan"
    title: "Maïmon ben Yossef HaDayan"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://he.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D7%9E%D7%99%D7%99%D7%9E%D7%95%D7%9F_%D7%94%D7%93%D7%99%D7%99%D7%9F"
    title: "מיימון הדיין"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q3303401"
    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"

# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-relations