Joseph ben Judah ibn Aknin was a Sephardic Jewish writer of numerous treatises, mostly on the Mishnah and the Talmud. He was born in Barcelona, but settled in Fes, where by his own admission he lived as a crypto-Jew. Though a native of Spain, his... Wikipedia
Born: 1150, Barcelona, Spain
Died: 1220 (age 70 years), Aleppo, Syria