Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, "Magnetite" to "Malt"

part in the education of Maimonides, whose father, besides training him

in all branches of Hebrew and Jewish scholarship, implanted in the youth a sound knowledge of these secular studies as well. In 1148 Cordova was taken from the last Fatimite caliph by the victorious Almohades, who had spread over Spain from N. Africa. These militant revivalists strove to re-establish Islam in wh...