Moses Maimonides, physician and philosopher in Fustat, codifies all of Jewish law in the Mishneh Torah and reconciles faith and Aristotelian philosophy in the Guide of the Perplexed; no medieval Jewish thinker shapes the tradition more.
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The Event
- Date
- 1135–1204 (exact)
- Era
- Medieval; Standard periodization of Jewish history
- Location
- Fustat; today Cairo, Egypt
- Traditions
- Judaism
- Streams
- Orthodox Judaism, Conservative Judaism, Reform Judaism, Reconstructionist Judaism, Secular Judaism
- Key figures
- Maimonides
- Key texts
- Mishneh Torah, Guide of the Perplexed
Primary Sources
- Mishneh Torah
- Guide of the Perplexed
Secondary Sources
- Cohen, Under Crescent and Cross: The Jews in the Middle Ages (Princeton, 1994)
- Goodman, A History of Judaism (Princeton, 2018)
Provenance: HIST-0118; confidence 0.95; accessed 2026-10-27.
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