Maimonides

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12th-century Sephardic Jewish rabbi

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According to Wikipedia, Moshe ben Maimon. Hebrew Arabic . Born , in the English world as Maimonides and also referred to by the Hebrew acronym Rambam , was a Sephardic Jewish philosopher who became one of the most prolific and influential Torah scholars of the Middle Ages. In his time, he was also a preeminent astronomer and physician, serving as the personal physician of Saladin. Born in Córdoba, Almoravid Empire , on Passover eve, 1138 , he worked as a rabbi, physician and philosopher in Morocco and Egypt. He died in Egypt on 12 December 1204, when his body was taken to the lower Galilee and buried in Tiberias.

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