Early years of Maimuni (Maimonides)--His journey to Fez--Letter of Consolation of Maimun (father of Maimonides)--Maimuni and the Jewish Converts to Islam--The Maimun Family in Palestine and Egypt--Maimuni's Commentary on the Mishna--Saladin and the Jews--Letter of Maimonides to Yemen--The _Mishne-Torah_ of Maimuni--Controversies with reference to this Work--Joseph Ibn-Aknin--Maimuni as a Physician--Maimuni attacked by Samuel ben Ali--Maimuni and the Jews of Provence--The _More Nebuchim_ and its importance--Death of Maimonides _page_ 446 1171-1205 C. E. CHAPTER XV. NEW POSITION OF THE JEWS IN CHRISTIAN LANDS AT THE BEGINNING OF THE THIRTEENTH CENTURY. Effects of the Death of Maimuni--Abraham Maimuni, the son of Maimuni--Hostility of the Papacy against the Jews--Pope Innocent III--The Albigenses--Emigration of Rabbis to Palestine--The Lateran Council and the Jewish Badges--Synod of Rabbis at Mayence--The Dominicans and the Rise of the Inquisition--King Jayme of Aragon and his Physician Benveniste --Stephen Langton and the Jews of England--Gregory IX and Louis IX of France--The Jews of Hungary _page_ 494 1205-1232 C. E. CHAPTER XVI. THE MAIMUNIST CONTROVERSY AND THE RISE OF THE KABBALA. The Opposition against Maimuni--Maimunists and anti-Maimunists --Meïr Abulafia--Samson of Sens--Solomon of Montpellier-- Excommunication of the Maimunists--David Kimchi's energetic Advocacy of Maimuni--Nachmani--His Character and Work--His Relations to Maimuni, Ibn-Ezra, and the Kabbala--Solomon of Montpellier calls in the aid of the Dominicans--Moses of Coucy --Modern date of the Kabbala--Azriel and Ezra--Doctrines of the Kabbala--Jacob ben Sheshet Gerundi--The Bahir--Three Parties in Judaism--Last flicker of the Neo-Hebraic Poetry-- The Satirical Romance: Al-Charisi and Joseph ben Sabara _page_ 522 1232-1236 C. E. CHAPTER XVII. PUBLIC DISCUSSIONS, AND THE BURNING OF THE TALMUD.