Maimonides, Mosheh ben Maimon (Cordoba 1135-Al Fustat, Egypt 1204). Religious intolerance under the Almohad rule drove him into exile in 1148. He eventually settled in Egypt where he rose to fame as a doctor to the Sultan Saladin. He is considered the most important post-biblical scholar for his work as a Talmudic compiler, hence the Jewish saying: "From Moshe to Moshe (Maimonides) there was none like Moshe". In his main philosophical work, the Guide for the Perplexed, he attempts to reconcile faith and reason. This work exerted an important influence on such philosophers as Spinoza and the Saints Albert the Great and Tomas of Aquinas.