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Ibn 'Arabi's contemporaries in the Jewish world
Moses Maimonides (1135–1204)
By general agreement, the most significant Jewish philosopher and
religious teacher of the Middle Ages. Born in Cordoba, he left Andalusia
with his family in 1148 as a result of Almohad persecution. After 18 years
in Fez he moved to Egypt, becoming court physician to Saladin as well
as head of the Jewish community at Fostat. His writings include the More
Nevukhim (Guide to the Perplexed; 1190) and an Arabic commentary
on the Mishnah, and demonstrate a familiarity with Muslim writers
such as Ibn Rushd. His son, Abraham, cultivated contacts with the Sufi
community in Egypt, a dialogue which led to a kind of Jewish Sufism. This
interest in Islamic mysticism manifested in several manuscripts being
copied into Hebrew letters, including Ibn 'Arabi's Kitab
al-Tajalliyat (Book of Theophanies).
Moses de Leon (d.1305)
The probable author of the Zohar, the central work in the literature
of Kabbalah ("received tradition" in Hebrew). The Zohar,
or Book of Splendour, was written around 1300, and represents one of the
great flowerings of esoteric knowledge in Jewish mysticism.
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The bust of Maimonides in Cordoba
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