High Middle Ages · Middle East · Culture
1204
Maimonides dies in Fustat
1204
The physician, philosopher, and rabbi who had reconciled Aristotle with Torah died in Egypt, where he had served the sultan. Jewish communities from Cairo to Provence mourned him. His Guide for the Perplexed would shape scholastic thought far beyond its original readers. Thomas Aquinas cited him; Spinoza wrestled with him; his codification of Jewish law remains authoritative to this day.
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High Middle Ages (1000–1300), one of 1,306 events from that era on Saeculum.
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