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IBN GABIROL [SOLOMON BEN JUDAH] , Jewish poet and philosopher, was born at Malaga, probably about 1021. The early part of his troublous life was spent at Saragossa , but few personal details of it are recorded. His parents died while he was a child and he was under the protection first of a certain Jekuthiel, who died in 1039, and afterwards of Samuel ha-Nagid, the well-known patron of learning. His passionate disposition, however, embittered no doubt by his misfortunes, involved him in frequent difficulties and led to his quarrelling with Samuel. It is generally agreed that he died young, although the date is uncertain. Al Harizi
His literary activity began early. He is said to have composed poems at the age of sixteen, and elegies by him are extant on Hai Gaon (died in 1038) and Jekuthiel (died in 1039), each of which was written probably soon after the death of the person commemorated. About the same time he also wrote his 'Anag, a poem on grammar, of which only 97 lines out of 400 are pre-served. Moses ben Ezra says of him that he imitated Moslem models, and was the first to open to Jewish poets the door of versification,' meaning that he first popularized the use of Arabic metres in Hebrew, t is as a poet that he has been known to the Jews to the esent day, and admired for the youthful freshness and beauty of his work, in which he may be compared to the romantic school in France and England in the early 19th century. Besides his lyrical and satirical poems, he contributed many of the finest compositions to the liturgy
Outside the Jewish community he was known as the philosopher Avicebron (Avencebrol, Avicebrol, &c.) The credit of identifying this name as a medieval corruption of Ibn Gabirol is due to S. Munk, who showed that selections made by Shem Tobh Palgera (or Falgera) from the Megor IIayyim (the Hebrew translation of an Arabic original
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' Jud. Har. Ilfacamce, ed. Lagarde (Gottingen, 1883), p. 89, 1. 61. z See the passage quoted by Munk, Melanges de philosophic arabe et juive (Paris, 1859), pp. 264 and 517. ' Liber Juchassin, ed. Filipowski (London, 1857), p. 217. Hebr. Ubersetzungen (Berlin, 1893), 219, note 7o; cf. Kaufmann, Studien fiber Sal.-ibn Gabirol (Budapest, 1899), p. 79, note 2. s See Munk, op. cit. pp. 515-516, transl. on pp. 263-264. Metre had been already used by Dunash.doctrine that there is a material, as well as a formal, element in all created beings was explicitly adopted from Avicebron by Duns Scotus (as against the view of Albertus Magnus and Thomas Aquinas), and perhaps his exaltation of the will above the intellect is due to the same influence. Avicebron develops his philosophical system throughout quite independently of his religious viewsa practice wholly foreign to Jewish teachers, and one which could not be acceptable to them. Indeed, this charge is expressly brought against him by Abraham ben David of Toledo (died in 118o). It is doubtless this non-religious attitude which accounts for the small attention paid to the Fens Vitae by the Jews, as compared with the wide influence of the philosophy of Maimonides. The other important work of Ibn Gabirol is Isldh al-akhldq (the improvement of character), a popular work in Arabic, translated into Hebrew (Tigqun middoth ha-nephesh) by Judah ibn Tibbon. It is widely different in treatment from the Fens, being intended as a practical not a speculative work. The collection of moral maxims, compiled in Arabic but best known (in the Hebrew translation of Judah ibn Tibbon) as Mib, ar ha-peninim, is generally ascribed to Ibn Gabirol, though on less certain grounds. Avencebrolis Eons Vitae" (Latin text) in Clemens Baumker's Beitrage zur Gesch. sl. Philosophie, Bd. i. Hefte 2-4 (Munster, 1892) ; The Improvement of the Moral Qualities [Arabic and English] ed. by S. S. Wise (New York
On the philosophy in general : S. Munk, Melanges (quoted above) ; Guttmann, Die Philosophie des Sal.-ibn Gabirol (Gottingen, 1889) ; D. Kaufmann, Studien Ober Sal.-ibn Gabirol (Budapest, 1899); S. Horovitz, " Die Psychologie Ibn Gabirols," in the Jahresbericht des jfid. theol. Seminars Franckel'scher Stiftung (Breslau, Igloo); Wittmann, " Zur Stellung Avencebrols (in Biiumker's Beitrage, Bd. v. Heft 1, Monster
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