teacher was martyred for refusing

For more than a century, the Jews of Fez and other communities lived as Muslims, but for the most part they continued to practice certain Jewish customs in secret. At times, even the surveillance of new converts was less rigorous, as was the case in Fez in the years 1160-1165 when the famous Maimonides (R. Moshe ben Maymon, 1138-1204) settled there with his father fleeing Cordoba. He studied there with the great sage R. Yehuda Hacohen ben Sousan, but when his teacher was martyred for refusing to publicly recant, he left the city for Palestine and eventually settled in Egypt. Two other great Jewish scholars, the exegete R. Yosef ben Aqnin and the poet R. Yehuda ben Shemuel Ibn Abbas followed suit later and settled in Aleppo, Syria. At the end of the twelfth century, harsher measures were taken against copyright-Jews, such as the wearing of distinctive clothing, the prohibition of trade, and the separation of children from their families to be educated by old Muslim families. But persecution later abated, allowing the various communities to reorganize openly under the tolerant rule of the Marinids. สล็อต เว็บตรง