Ibn Ezra, Moses

Ibn Ezra, Moses
(c. 1055–1138)
   Spanish philosopher and linguist. Ibn Ezra was born in Granada, and became the chief literary authority among Spanish Jews in his time. He left his native city soon after 1091, some say because of a disappointment in love, but it is more than likely that his departure coincided with the capture of Granada by the Moslem Almoravids. Although they were not noted as religious fanatics, as were the Almohads, the new rulers proceeded to settle the town with Moslems. Under the previous Moslem dynasty, the town had been inhabited largely by Jews.
   Until his death, Moses wandered around in Castile and Aragon, then under Christian rule. His writings - a philosophical treatise in Arabic, a treatise on rhetoric and poetry, also in Arabic, and secular and religious poems written in Hebrew - are imbued with deep pessimism. He emphasized the inability of the human mind to grasp the mysteries of existence and his penitential poems depicted the emptiness of life, the vanity of worldly glory and the disappointment that is the inevitable reward of the seeker after pleasure.

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