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A biography on a grand scale, it brilliantly explicates one man's life against the background of the social, religious, and political issues of his time. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eMaimonides was born in C rdoba, in Muslim-ruled Spain, in 1138 and died in Cairo in 1204. He lived in an Arab-Islamic environment from his early years in Spain and North Africa to his later years in Egypt, where he was immersed in its culture and society. His life, career, and writings are the highest expression of the intertwined worlds of Judaism and Islam. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eMaimonides lived in tumultuous times, at the peak of the Reconquista in Spain and the Crusades in Palestine. His monumental compendium of Jewish law, the \u003ci\u003eMishneh Torah\u003c\/i\u003e, became a basis of all subsequent Jewish legal codes and brought him recognition as one of the foremost lawgivers of humankind. 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