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Moses Ibn Ezra
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Moses b. Jacob
Ibn Ezra (Abū Hārūn Mūsā b. Yaʿqūb Ibn ʿAzrā; b. c.446/1055, d. c.532–4/1138–40) was an Andalusian Jewish polymath most renowned for his Arabic-style Hebrew poetry. His
adab-style (belletristic-informal and somewhat digressive) poetics, composed in Judaeo-Arabic and dealing with the composition of Hebrew poetry in accordance with the rules of Arabic verse, is the only extant mediaeval Jewish work of its kind. He was born into an aristocratic Jewish family in Zīrid Granada, where his early years were spent in …
Source:
Encyclopaedia of Islam, THREE
Date:
2021-07-19
