← Maimonides⏳ 1138–1204

📙 Who lived at the same time as Maimonides?

Every thinker below, drawn from the AGORA universe with attested dates, genuinely overlapped with Maimonides (1138–1204) — they may never have met, but they breathed the air of the same age.

Contemporaries (overlapping lives) · 2

🀄Zhu Xi1130–1200 · 62 years of overlapSouthern Song Neo-Confucian, Great Synthesizer of the Cheng-Zhu School 📘Ibn Rushd1126–1198 · 60 years of overlapAndalusian Philosopher, the Great Synthesizer of the Tradition of Aristotelian Commentary

Near misses (within 60 years) · 2

📚Thomas Aquinasc. 1225–1274 · born 21 years after Maimonides diedGreat Synthesizer of Scholastic Philosophy, Fusing Aristotelian Philosophy and Christian Theology 🕌Al-Ghazalic. 1058–1111 · died 27 years before Maimonides was bornPersian Philosopher and Theologian, an Important Critic of Rationalist Philosophy Within Islam