GAW – Bother. You got the bikkit line in before me…
HaLeivi – Added to Sam2’s Rambam we have Rav Hai Gaon (who held it was avodah zorah gemurah), Rav Crescas and the Ralbag. Although in the case of the Ralbag you could arguably claim he held it to be as Jewish as bechira…
Derech Hamelech – I really don’t get the whole “the Rambam was chozer at the end of his life” thing. So he was vehemntly angainst something all his life, wrote copious amounts in his seforim about why he didn’t hold of it, and then was suddenly chozer and never told anyone about it? He never wrote his retraction? I mean that’s a pretty big chazoro and he never actually publicized it?! There is no contemporary evidence that he was chozer, neither from him nor even from someone who was simply around at the time. Surely a chazoro as big as that would have got some sort of mention somewhere. It would be like one of the Satmar Rebbes turning round and becoming a tzioni, not going to pass without comment… And yet you would have me believe that it did… Hmmmm…