Rabbi Shlomo ben Avraham of Montpellier רבי שלמה בן אברהם מן ההר

The dispute this timeline calls the Argument over the Rambam's Legacy began neither in Spain nor in Egypt, but here, in Montpellier, and it was begun by Rabbi Shlomo ben Avraham, called Shlomo min ha-Har—"of the mountain".

His argument was not about the Rambam's stature: the greatness of the Mishneh Torah he acknowledged. It was about something else—that the Moreh Nevuchim and the book Mada read allegorically matters from which a young man reading alone would draw a conclusion corrosive to plain faith. So he and his students—Rabbi Yonah and Rabbi David ben Shaul—proclaimed a ban on such reading before maturity.

The other side answered with a ban of its own, and then came what no one had wanted: in 1232 and 1233 the Dominicans burned the Rambam's books in Montpellier. Rabbi Yonah later repented of his share in the dispute—that is told in his own article. We do not decide who was right: both sides stood for the Torah as they understood it, and both were appalled by how it ended.