ABBAS, JUDAH BEN SAMUEL IBN
- ABBAS, JUDAH BEN SAMUEL IBN
- ABBAS, JUDAH BEN SAMUEL IBN, moderate rationalist author
active sometime between the 13th and 15th
centuries. Ibn Abbas' most important contribution was the rationalist
ethical and educational work Ya'ir Nativ ("He Will Light the
Way"). Ibn Abbas also wrote a short book on ethics, Mekor
Ḥayyim ("Fountain of Life"), and two other books which have not
survived, Me'ir Einayim ("Light of the Eyes"), on the reasons
for the commandments, and a commentary on Aristotle's
Organon.
In Ya'ir Nativ, Ibn Abbas criticized the extremists on both
sides of the controversy over philosophy. On the one hand, he criticized
the extreme rationalists for their philosophical antinomianism and
for their laxity in, or even mocking, observance of the commandments. On
the other hand, he was critical of the "talmudist" rabbis who studied
only Talmud and not philosophy. He was thus a model of the moderate
rationalism of the period. Ibn Abbas became famous for the curriculum of
studies presented in Ya'ir Nativ. The curriculum was printed
several times.
-BIBLIOGRAPHY:
S. Asaf, in: S. Glueck (ed.), Sources for the History of Education
in Israel (1961), 65–69; D. Schwartz, in: Tarbiz, 62
(1993), 585–615.
(Dov Schwartz (2nd ed.)
Encyclopedia Judaica.
1971.
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