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    Samuel ben Judah ibn Tibbon (c. 1150 – c. 1230), more commonly known as Samuel ibn Tibbon (Hebrew: שמואל בן יהודה אבן תבון, Arabic: ابن تبّون), was a...
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  • written by Moses ibn Tibbon makes it probable that he reached a great age. He was son of Samuel ibn Tibbon, and father of the Judah ibn Tibbon who was prominent...
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  • number of works written by Moses ibn Tibbon suggest that he reached a great age. He was the son of Samuel ibn Tibbon, a Jewish scholar and doctor who...
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    (Arabic: كتاب إصلاح الأخلاق, translated into Hebrew by Judah ben Saul ibn Tibbon as Hebrew: תקון מדות הנפש At around age 25, or not,: xxv  he may have...
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    Judah ben Saul ibn Tibbon (1120 – after 1190) was a translator and physician. Born in Granada, he left Spain in 1150, probably on account of persecution...
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    meaningless. This distinction first appeared in the commentaries of Samuel ibn Tibbon (d. 1230) and Aaron ben Joseph of Constantinople (d. 1320). To every...
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    Emunah Ramah; the other by Samuel Motot. Labi's translation was retranslated into German and published by Simshon Weil. Ibn Daud was the first to introduce...
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    Maimonides. The first translation of this work into Hebrew was done by Samuel ibn Tibbon in 1204 just prior to Maimonides' death. Teshuvot, collected correspondence...
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    Abraham ben Meir Ibn Ezra (Hebrew: ר׳ אַבְרָהָם בֶּן מֵאִיר אִבְּן עֶזְרָא‎ ʾAḇrāhām ben Mēʾīr ʾībən ʾEzrāʾ, often abbreviated as ראב"ע‎; Arabic: إبراهيم...
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    first translated in 1204 into Hebrew by a contemporary of Maimonides, Samuel ibn Tibbon. The work is divided into three parts. According to Maimonides, he...
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    Jewish philosophy. Abarbanel is quoted as saying that he counted Joseph ibn Shem-Tov as his mentor. At 20 years old, he wrote on the original form of...
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    Rabbi Abraham ibn Ezra, particularly regarding ibn Ezra's negative attitude towards Kabbalah. Nevertheless, he had tremendous respect for ibn Ezra, as is...
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  • Another neoclassical Jewish proponent of self-limited omniscience was Abraham ibn Daud. "Whereas the earlier Jewish philosophers extended the omniscience of...
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    the Duties of the Heart It was translated into Hebrew by Judah ben Saul ibn Tibbon in the years 1161-80 under the title Hebrew: חובות הלבבות, romanized: Ḥoḇoṯ...
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    Many have direct parallels in medieval Arabic. The ibn Tibbon family, and especially Samuel ibn Tibbon, were personally responsible for the creation of...
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  • A similar distinction was expressed by Maimonides in a letter to Samuel ibn Tibbon, his translator, in 1199. He wrote: I shall premise one rule: the...
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  • Montpellier about 1304. He was a grandson of Samuel ben Judah ibn Tibbon. His Provençal name was Don Profiat Tibbon; the Latin writers called him Profatius...
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    including Samuel ibn Tibbon in his work Opinion of the Philosophers, Judah ben Solomon ha-Kohen in his Search for Wisdom and Shem-Tov ibn Falaquera,...
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  • later appear in the Zohar, which copied this term from Maimonides. Samuel ibn Tibbon speculated that the term "ishim" has a lost Talmudic origin. Reuven...
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    Nuṣr al-Din al-Dhalil, كتاب الحجة و الدليل في نصرة الدين الذليل,. Judah ibn Tibbon translated it into Hebrew in the mid-12th century with the title Sefer...
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    philosophers such as Bahya ibn Paquda (c. 1050–1120), Judah Halevi (c. 1075–1141), Joseph ibn Tzaddik (died 1149), and Abraham ibn Ezra (c. 1090–1165). Nevertheless...
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    Hasdai (Abu Yusuf ben Yitzhak ben Ezra) ibn Shaprut (Hebrew: חסדאי אבן שפרוט; Arabic: حسداي بن شبروط, Abu Yussuf ibn Shaprut) born about 915 at Jaén, Spain;...
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  • Nissim maintained an active correspondence with Hai ben Sharira and with Samuel ibn Naghrillah, whose son Joseph married Nissim's only daughter in 1049.: xix ...
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    al-Istiḳat were severely criticized by Maimonides in a letter to Samuel ibn Tibbon (Iggerot ha-Rambam, p. 28, Leipsic, 1859), in which he declared that...
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    Shlomo ben Avraham ibn Aderet (Hebrew: שלמה בן אברהם אבן אדרת or Solomon son of Abraham son of Aderet) (1235 – 1310) was a medieval rabbi, halakhist,...
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    reconciling them". Fez Abraham ibn Ezra Isaac ibn Ghiyyat Moses ibn Ezra Yehuda Alharizi Joseph ibn Tzaddik Samuel ibn Tibbon Location of Fostat in modern...
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    Catalan original is no longer extant; but a Hebrew translation by Joseph ibn Shem-Tov, with the title ("Refutation of the Cardinal Principles of the Christians")...
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    representative of his name. Works of the Kimhi family were underwritten by the ibn Yahya family of Lisbon in the Kingdom of Portugal. Kimhi saw himself primarily...
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    Islamic, and Christian philosophers. Key Jewish philosophers included Samuel Ibn Tibbon, Maimonides, and Gersonides, among many others. Their views of God...
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    early modern period. Influenced by Stoicism, Thomas Hobbes, René Descartes, Ibn Tufayl, and heterodox Christians, Spinoza was a leading philosopher of the...
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