What Maimonides Means to Me

Beyond just his great volume of work, inspiration from the life of the


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The Almohads

The seizure of power in the Maghreb by a fanatical sect disrupted the relations between Muslims and Jews.

Jewish Education in Muslim Lands

In Muslim countries, Jewish boys learned the whole range of Jewish and secular subjects.

The Geonim

The heads of the academies in Babylon became the incontestable leaders of the Jewish world.