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Moshe ben Maimon
Moses ben Maimon (died 12 December 1204), commonly known as Maimonides and also referred to by the Hebrew acronym Rambam, was a Sephardic Jewish rabbi who is widely acknowledged as one of the most prolific and influential Torah scholars of the Middle Ages. Originally from Córdoba, where he was born on Passover Eve of 1135 or 1138, his family was exiled from Muslim-ruled Spain when they refused to convert to Islam shortly after the Almohad Caliphate conquered the Almoravid dynasty in 1148. Over the course of the next two decades, Maimonides resided in Fez, Acre, Jerusalem, Alexandria, and Cairo
Solomon ibn Gabirol
11th-century Andalusian poet and Jewish philosopher
Abraham ibn Ezra
12th-century Sephardic rabbi and astrologer
Judah Halevi
Spanish-Jewish philosopher, poet and physician (c.1075–1141)
Judah Loew ben Bezalel
Czech rabbi
Saadia Gaon
rabbi, translator, Jewish philosopher and theologian (0882-0942) active during the Abbasid Caliphate in Egypt and Irak
Isaac Abrabanel
Portuguese-Spanish Jewish businessman, exegete and philosopher (1437-1508)
Uriel da Costa
Portuguese philosopher (c.1585-1640)
Nahmanides
Moses ben Nachman ( Mōše ben-Nāḥmān, "Moses son of Nachman"; 1194–1270), commonly known as Nachmanides (; Nakhmanídēs), and also referred to by the acronym Ramban (; ) and by the contemporary nickname Bonastruc ça Porta (; literally "Mazel Tov near the Gate", see ), was a leading medieval Jewish scholar, Catalan rabbi, philosopher, physician, kabbalist, and biblical commentator. He was raised, studied, and lived for most of his life in Girona, Catalonia. He is also considered to be an important figure in the re-establishment of the Jewish community in Jerusalem following its destruction by the
Hasdai Crescas
Spanish Jewish philosopher and teacher (c.1340–1410/11)
Abraham ibn Daud
12th century Spanish astronomer, historian and philosopher
Gersonides
Levi ben Gershon (1288 – 20 April 1344), better known by his Graecized name as Gersonides, or by his Latinized name Magister Leo Hebraeus, or in Hebrew by the abbreviation of first letters as RaLBaG, was a medieval French Jewish philosopher, Talmudist, mathematician, physician and astronomer/astrologer. He was born at Bagnols in Languedoc, France. According to Abraham Zacuto and others, he was the son of Gerson ben Solomon Catalan.
Judah Leon Abravanel
Portuguese Jewish philosopher, physician and poet
Joseph Albo
Jewish rabbi
Samuel ibn Tibbon
French Orthodox rabbi
Moses ibn Ezra
11th/12th-century Andalusian Jewish philosopher, linguist and poet
Bahya ibn Paquda
Spanish Jewish philosopher and rabbi (c.1050–1120)
Abu'l-Barakāt al-Baghdādī
12th century Iraqi Islamic philosopher, physicist and physician
Isaac ben Solomon al-Israeli
medieval Jewish physician and philosopher
Francisco Sanches
Portuguese philosopher
Judah ben Samuel of Regensburg
German Jewish mystic (1150–1217)
Aaron ben Elijah
rabbi
Azariah dei Rossi
Italian-Jewish physician and scholar (c.1511-1578)
Simeon ben Zemah Duran
Rabbinical authority
Shem-Tov ibn Falaquera
Spanish philosopher
Obadiah ben Jacob Sforno
Italian philosopher and rabbi
Abner of Burgos
14th-century Castillian philosopher and religious writer
Profiat Duran
person associated with Hebrew manuscripts
Aaron ben Joseph of Constantinople
Byzantine rabbi
Ibn Kammuna
philosopher and dissenter of Islam
Gerson ben Solomon Catalan
French theologian and writer
Ibn Shaprut
Spanish Jewish philosopher
Isaac ben Sheshet
Spanish rabbi
David ibn Merwan al-Mukkamas
Medieval Judeo-Arabic philosopher and controversialist
Elia del Medigo
Sephardic philosopher
Abu l-Fadl Hasdai ibn Yusuf ibn Hasdai
Spanish writer
Isaac ben Joseph ibn Pulgar
14th-century Spanish philosopher and poet
Berechiah ha-Nakdan
Jewish poet and philosopher
Judah ben Solomon ha-Kohen
13th century Spanish Jewish philosopher
Isaac ben Moses Arama
rabbi, philosopher and preacher
Jacob ben Nissim
philosopher and rabbi from Ifriqiya
Joseph Caspi
Jewish lexicographer and rabbi
Moses ben Joshua
14th-century Catalan philosopher and physician
Natan'el al-Fayyumi
Jewish writer
Hillel ben Samuel
Spanish-Italian rabbi
Isaac ibn Latif
Jewish philosopher
Shemariah of Negropont
Italian philosopher
Isaac Albalag
philosopher
Levi ben Abraham ben Hayyim
13th-century French rabbi and encyclopedist
Jedaiah ben Abraham Bedersi
philosopher
Yohanan Alemanno
philosopher
Abiathar Crescas
astrolger
Samuel Abravanel
Sephardic-Italian financier, academic, and supporter of Italian Jewry
Joseph ben Abraham
Philosopher and rabbi
Judah ben Moses Romano
Italian philosopher
Judah ben Nissim
Moroccan writer and philosopher