Maimonides (Barnes & Noble Digital Library)

Presented in this streamlined volume is the captivating biography of Maimonides—the Jewish philosopher, jurist, physician, and one of the greatest Jewish scholars of the medieval period, who eventually became the court physician to Sultan Saladin. Author David Yellin’s meticulous scholarship examines Maimonides’s life, his works, and his emergence as a leader of the Jewish community in Egypt.