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Salomon ibn Gabirol

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Poet and philosopher of Málaga, author of the Source of Life (Meqor Hayyim), a Neoplatonic treatise so universal that Christian scholastics believed him to be Muslim (under the name Avicebron). His poem Keter Malkhut (Royal Crown) is recited on Yom Kippur in the Sephardic rite.

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Sources & resources

« Gabirol, Solomon ben Judah, Ibn », Encyclopaedia Judaica (2ᵉ éd.) (2007) ↗
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