Maimonides

philosopher, rabbi and physician

c. 1138 – 1204 · 66 years · Fustat (Cairo) · Africa

The greatest medieval Jewish thinker, author of The Guide for the Perplexed and court physician in Saladin's Egypt.

Portrait: Blaisio Ugolino · Public domain · Wikimedia Commons

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