Maimonides
In Our Time
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Maimonides' Commentary on the Mishnah
Maimonides was a Muslim, but most of his collaborators in Baghdad in the 10th century were Christians. The only Christians really in the intellectual background for him are the ones who help translate these works from Greek and to Arabic. And we can see already from his attempt to write the commentary on the Mishnah that he already had his life work planned for him. He is fluent in Hebrew, but his cultural language in many ways is Arabic.
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