by Herbert Le Porrier · CIRCULO DE LECTORES: MOMENTOS ESTELARES DE LA HISTORIA · tapa blanda · ISBN 9788422635499
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«El médico de Córdoba» is the historical novel by Herbert Le Porrier, published in 1991 by Círculo de Lectores in paperback (292 pages, in Spanish).
It reconstructs the life and times of Moses Maimonides, the Jewish physician, philosopher and sage born in twelfth-century Córdoba, where Arab, Christian and Jewish cultures coexisted. As an old man, he evokes his childhood, the Almohad invasion that drove his family into exile and the long journey across the Mediterranean while his fame as a sage grew.
Novel originally published in French as «Le Médecin de Cordoue» (1974); this Círculo de Lectores edition belongs to the collection Momentos estelares de la historia.
For readers interested in the medieval history of al-Andalus and the figure of Maimonides.
