at early period of ghobad’s reign, sassanid king (486-531ad), an important movement occurred, headed by mazdak, for several social, economic and political reasons so that the king supported it in order to weaken the position of great figures and clergymen as well. naturally, important people opposed the given movement and dethroned ghobad king from power and he managed to resume his reign again...

Moses Maimonides was born in Cordova, the capital of Moorish Spain, on 30 March 1135. His father, Maimon, was a judge of the Jewish religious courts. Until the family fled to Fez in 1159, because of religious persecution, Maimonides was a pupil of the philosopher– physician Averroes (1126–98). From Morocco the family moved on to Palestine and then to Egypt. Shortly after arriving in Cairo, his ...