Isaac ibn Latif

Isaac ibn Latif (c. 1210-1280) was a Jewish philosopher, who lived most of his life in Toledo. In 1238 he published his first work, a treatise named sha'ar ha-shama'yim ("heaven's gate"), a commentary on Koheles (Ecclesiastes). [1] Artscroll's Koheles cites from his work.[2]

Other works

Other works by ibn Latif include[3]

  • Iggeret ha-Teshuvah and
  • Tsurat ha-Olam[4] (published 1260;[5] printed 1860 in Vienna).[6]

The earliest printing of his Sefer Rov Po'a'lim[7] ספר פעלים,[8] was in 1885.

Family

His father's name was Abraham (אברהם) ; he had a son named Moses (משה).[9]

References
  1. "Latif, Isaac b. Abraham ibn".
  2. p.98/4:4, p. 104/4:13, p.108/5:1
  3. "ALLATIF, ISAAC BEN ABRAHAM IBN LATIF".
  4. "Tsurat ha-olam - Isaac ben Abraham Ibn Latif". 1860.
  5. "Latif, Isaac ben Abraham ibn approximately 1220".
  6. "Manuscript – Tzurat HaOlam by Rabbi Yitzchak Ibn Latif and an Unidentified Work on the Torah – Beginning of 15th Century".
  7. "Sefer Rov Poalim (Hebrew Edition): Yitzhak Ibn Latif".
  8. "ספר פעלים". 1885.
  9. "Moses ben Isaac Ibn Latif".
  • Shoey Raz: Latif, Isaac b. Abraham ibn. In: Encyclopaedia Judaica, 2. edition, Vol. 12, Detroit 2007, pp. 506–507 (online)
  • Dan Cohn-Sherbok: Medieval Jewish Philosophy. Routledge 1996, ISBN 0-7007-0414-0, pp. 117–119 (online copy , p. 117, at Google Books)
  • Harvey J. Hames: The Art of Conversion: Christianity and Kabbalah in the Thirteenth Century. Brill 2000, ISBN 90-04-11715-6, pp. 56–57 (online copy , p. 56, at Google Books)
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