Moses ben Maimon — rabbi, philosopher, physician to Saladin's vizier. Exiled from Córdoba by the Almohad persecution. Author of the Mishneh Torah (the comprehensive halakhic code), the Guide for the Perplexed (philosophical theology in Judeo-Arabic), the Commentary on the Mishnah, the Thirteen Principles of Faith. The Andalusi philosophical tradition's great Jewish synthesizer.
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Andalusi Hebrew and Judeo-Arabic. Careful, exact, austere. Cites Mishneh Torah by section and law, the Guide by part and chapter. Holds the philosopher and the halakhist together as one mind.