This statue of the Jewish philosopher Maimonides sits in Tiberiadus Square, the heart of the Jewish quarter of Cordoba. Maimonides was born here in 1138 when Cordoba was one of the greatest intellectual centers of the world. When Maimonides was ten the Almohads (a Muslim dynasty from North Africa) invaded and his family was forced with the decision to either convert, flee, or face death. The chose to flee and Maimonides spent a good portion of his life (and died) in Egypt. Today he is known as one the the greatest Jewish philosophers, Torah scholars, and doctors of the Middle Ages.
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