MAIMONIDES 1135 - 1204 Jewish Philosopher Moses Maimonides was born as a Jew under Muslim rule in Cordoba, Spain. He became a philosopher, jurist and physician who lived in Morocco, Palestine and Egypt. 
Maimonides wrote numerous commentaries on rabbinical tradition which 
made him a major religious authority in Judaism.  | 
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