Maimonides

27 07, 2017

Maimonides – a Jewish doctor in medieval Cairo

By |2019-11-22T18:14:12-08:00July 27th, 2017|Islam, Science|Comments Off on Maimonides – a Jewish doctor in medieval Cairo

Saladin's castle in Cairo, where Maimonides worked Maimonides and health care In the 1100s AD, when Maimonides wrote his book about medicine, doctors didn't have very many medicines or medical treatments that worked. The Guide [...]

27 07, 2017

ibn al-Nafis – Discoveries of Islamic scientists

By |2019-09-06T09:40:40-07:00July 27th, 2017|Islam, Science|Comments Off on ibn al-Nafis – Discoveries of Islamic scientists

Illustration in Ibn al-Nafis Who was ibn al Nafis? Ibn al Nafis was born in Syria in the early 1200s AD, just as the power of the Seljuks was collapsing. He studied [...]

25 07, 2017

Guide for the Perplexed – Maimonides

By |2019-11-22T09:01:21-08:00July 25th, 2017|Egypt, Medieval, Philosophy|Comments Off on Guide for the Perplexed – Maimonides

Maimonides studied in this Cordoba synagogue in Spain (1315 AD, rebuilt from Maimonides' time) What did Maimonides study? When Maimonides was a child, in the 1100s AD, he studied Jewish religious law in the Cordoba synagogue, [...]

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