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Translator of the Guide to the Perplexed into Hebrew

Samuel ibn Tibbon

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1204

In 1204 he translated the Guide from Arabic into Hebrew, bringing the work to Jewish readers in Christian Europe.

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Within medieval Islamic culture, Maimonides's philosophy earned wide esteem. After Samuel ibn Tibbon rendered the Guide from Arabic into Hebrew, in 1204, Jewish readers in Christian Europe came to know it as well. Some adopted rational philosophy, and Jewish Aristotelian thinking thrived among scholars in northern Spain and southern France, Levi ben Gershon (That Gersonides) of fourteenth-century Provence being the most notable example.