Maimonides was born in 1135, in Córdoba, from where he had to flee after the Almohad conquest. He settled down in Fostat (once the capital of Egypt), where he made a living as a physician and wrote his philosophical works; among others, between 1170 and 1180, his masterpiece the Mishneh Torah. His intention was to collect and systemize the Jewish legal rules accumulated in the Oral Law (halacha). Maimonides died in Egypt in 1204, and his body was later buried in Tiberias. The Mishneh Torah endures as an influential work in Jewish religious thought, and it is still one of the most studied and most frequently cited halachic work, published in many various editions.