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""Vulture in a cage," Solomon Ibn Gabirol's own self-description, is an apt image for a poet who was obsessed with the impediments posed by the body and the material world to the realization of his spiritual ambition of elevating his soul to the empyrean. Ibn Gabirol's poetry is enormously influential, laying the groundwork for generations of Hebrew poets who follow him--rocky and harsh, full of original imagery and barbed wit, and yet no one surpassed him for the limpid beauty of his devotional verse. His poetry is at once a record of the inner life of a tormented poet and a monument to the Judeo-Arabic culture that produced him. This book contains the most extensive collection of Ibn Gabirol's poetry ever published in English"-- Provided by publisher.
"Solomon Ibn Gabirol was an Andalusian poet and Jewish philosopher, also traditionally known by his Latinized name Avicebron. He was born in Málaga around the year 1021 and is believed to have died around 1058 in Valencia. The present selection of Ibn Gabirol's poetry is by far the largest compilation of his poems that has appeared in English, yet it is not an attempt to suggest the sweep of his oeuvre. It is heavily weighted toward Ibn Gabirol's worldly poetry, especially toward that part of it in which his particular sensibility described above is evident, poems in which he speaks of himself, his struggles, accomplishments, frustrations, and anger. A selection of his nature, wine, and erotic poetry is included not merely to illustrate the lighter genres but as another way of displaying his unique voice. Likewise, the selection of religious poetry focuses on the more intimate kind of religious verse of which he was the pioneer, omitting (with one exception) his voluminous production of traditional-type liturgical poetry"-- Provided by publisher.

• Introduction
• I. Gabirol's Life
• II. Gabirol's Works
• III. The Font of Life
• First Treatise On those things that must be set forth for the clarification of universal matter and form and for the clarification of matter and form in composite substances
• Second Treatise On the Substance that Sustains the Corporeity of the World
• Third Treatise On the Existence of the Simple Substances
• Fourth Treatise On the Inquiry into the Knowledge of Matter and Form in the Simple Substances
• Fifth Treatise On Universal Matter and Universal Form in Themselves.

This volume is a sound translation of the Fons vitae of Solomon ibn Gabirol (born 1021/1022), who was the first Jewish philosopher in Spain. In the Fons vitae , Gabirol argues that there is a sensible and an intelligible world; that everything in the sensible and intelligible world is composed of matter and form; that lower things are an example of higher ones by which they are caused; that the intelligible world is composed of universal intelligence, universal soul, nature, and universal spiritual matter; that the human soul possessed knowledge when it was made but lost it when it was joined to the body and must remember it through sense-experience; that it is good for the soul to turn away from sensible things and pour itself into intelligible ones so that it may realize its final cause of returning to the higher, intellectual world; and that the ultimate source of all beinguthe font of lifeuis something both one and good, something from which all being flows like water emanates from a spring or like light flows from the sun. These doctrines profoundly influenced medieval Christian thinkers. While Dominicus Gundissalinus (c. 1110 u after 1190), William of Auvergne (c. 1190 u 1249), and Thomas of York (c. 1220 u 1260) embraced key elements of GabirolAEs system, Albert the Great (c. 1200 u 1280) and Thomas Aquinas (1225 u 1274) sharply criticized GabirolAEs thought. Because of the Fons vitae , Gabirol is today widely recognized as one of the greatest Jewish Neoplatonists.
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Solomon Ibn Gabirol (1021-1058) of Spain was a Jewish philosopher and moralist who is perhaps best known for the beautiful forty-stanza poem Keter Malkhut (The Kingly Crown). Hailed by scholars as one of the most important classics of Hebrew literature, The Kingly Crown employs the metaphor of a king in his palace to describe the relationship between humanity and God. This medieval poem is full of vivid imagery and scriptural references. Within its many layers of meaning, readers will find not only an extended prayer and meditation, but also signs of the neoplatonic philosophy that formed the foundation of Gabirol's cosmology and theology. The University of Notre Dame Press is pleased to bring back in print Bernard Lewis's lyrical translation of The Kingly Crown. This new edition includes Lewis's extensive notes and introduction as well as a new introduction, notes, and detailed philosophical commentary by Andrew L. Gluck, Gluck's meticulous correction of errors in the Hebrew text makes this the most accurate version ever published with an English translation.
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• Solomon Ibn Gabirol: An Andalusian Alphabet 3 FROM THE DIWAN OF SOLOMON IBN GABIROL Truth Seekers Turn 41 PERSONAL POEMS AND POEMS OF COURT I'm Prince to the Poem 45 My Words Are Driven 46 Forget About "If" and "Maybe" 47 Prologue to the Book of Grammar 49 My Condition Worsened 51 All My Desire 52 The Apple: I 53 The Rose 54 See the Sun 55 They Asked Me As Though They Were Mystified 56 On Leaving Saragossa 57 The Moon Was Cut 61 My Heart Thinks As the Sun Comes Up 62 The Palace Garden 63 Winter with Its Ink 66 The Garden 67 The Field 68 The Bee 69 Isn't the Sky 70 The Lily 71 Now the Thrushes 72 The Apple: II 73 The Lightning 74 The Lip of the Cup 75 I'd Give Up My Soul Itself 76 Tell the Boy 77 Be Smart with Your Love 78 All in Red 79 Shards 80 The Apple: III 81 You've Stolen My Words 82 The Altar of Song 83 Tell the Prince 84 What's Troubling You, My Soul 85 The Pen 88 What's With You 89 God-Fearing Men 90 Your Soul Strains and You Sigh 91 Don't Look Back 94 If This Life's Joy 95 When You Find Yourself Angry 96 I Am the Man 97 And Don't Be Astonished 99 The Tree 100 If You'd Live Among Men 104 Why Are You Frightened 105 A Kite 106 And Heart's Hollow 107 I Love You 108 POEMS OF DEVOTION Before My Being 111 Three Things 112 I Look for You 113 Forget Your Grief 114 The Hour of Song 117 Two Things Meet in Me 118 Small in My Awe 119 Open the Gate 120 My Thoughts Asked Me 121 Angels Amassing 122 All the Creatures of Earth and Heaven 124 He Dwells Forever 126 And So It Came to Nothing 129 Haven't I Hidden Your Name 130 Lord Who Listens 131 I've Made You My Refuge 132 Lips for Bullocks 133 I Take Great Pleasure 134 Send Your Spirit 135 You Lie in My Palace on Couches of Gold 136 KINGDOM'S CROWN 137 Notes 197 Bibliography 317.
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Poet, philosopher, and sensitive misanthrope, a spectacular fly in the ointment of the refined eleventh-century Andalusian-Jewish elite, Solomon Ibn Gabirol comes down to us as one of the most complicated intellectual figures in the history of post-biblical Judaism. Unlike his worldly predecessor Shmuel HaNagid, the first important poet of the period, Ibn Gabirol was a reclusive, mystically inclined figure whose modern-sounding medieval poems range from sublime descriptions of the heavenly spheres to poisonous jabs at court life and its pretenders. His verse, which demonstrates complete mastery of the classicizing avant-garde poetics of the day, grafted an Arabic aesthetic onto a biblical vocabulary and Jewish setting, taking Hebrew poetry to a level of metaphysical sophistication and devotional power it has not achieved since.Peter Cole's selection includes poems from nearly all of Ibn Gabirol's secular and liturgical lyric genres, as well as a complete translation of the poet's long masterwork, "Kingdom's Crown." Cole's rich, inventive introduction places the poetry in historical context and charts its influence through the centuries. Extensive annotations accompany the poems. This companion volume to Peter Cole's critically acclaimed "Selected Poems of Shmuel HaNagid" presents the first comprehensive selection of Ibn Gabirol's verse to be published in English and brings to life an astonishing body of poetry by one of the greatest Jewish writers of all time.
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• Solomon Ibn Gabirol: an andalusian alphabet
• From the Diwan of Solomon Ibn Gabirol : Truth Seekers Turn
• Personal poems and oems of court : I'm Prince to the Poem
• My Words Are Driven
• Forget About "If" and "Maybe"
• Prologue to the Book of Grammar
• My Condition Worsened
• All My Desire
• The Apple: I
• The Rose
• See the Sun
• They Asked Me As Though They Were Mystified
• On Leaving Saragossa
• The Moon Was Cut
• My Heart Thinks As the Sun Comes Up
• The Palace Garden
• Winter with Its Ink
• The Garden
• The Field
• The Bee
• Isn't the Sky
• The Lily
• Now the Thrushes
• The Apple: II
• The Lightning
• The Lip of the Cup
• I'd Give Up My Soul Itself
• Tell the Boy
• Be Smart with Your Love
• All in Red
• Shards
• The Apple: III
• You've Stolen My Words
• The Altar of Song
• Tell the Prince
• What's Troubling You, My Soul
• The Pen
• What's With You
• God-Fearing Men
• Your Soul Strains and You Sigh
• Don't Look Back
• If This Life's Joy
• When You Find Yourself Angry
• I Am the Man
• And Don't Be Astonished
• The Tree
• If You'd Live Among Men
• Why Are You Frightened
• A Kite
• And Heart's Hollow
• I Love You
• Pooems of devotion : Before My Being
• Three Things
• I Look for You
• Forget Your Grief
• The Hour of Song
• Two Things Meet in Me
• Small in My Awe
• Open the Gate
• My Thoughts Asked Me
• Angels Amassing
• All the Creatures of Earth and Heaven
• He Dwells Forever
• And So It Came to Nothing
• Haven't I Hidden Your Name
• Lord Who Listens
• I've Made You My Refuge
• Lips for Bullocks
• I Take Great Pleasure
• Send Your Spirit
• You Lie in My Palace on Couches of Gold
• Kingdom's crown
• Notes
• Bibliography.

"Solomon Ibn Gabirol comes down to us as one of the most complicated intellectual figures in the history of post-biblical Hebrew literature. Ibn Gabirol was a reclusive, mystically inclined writer whose modern-sounding medieval poems range from sublime descriptions of the heavenly spheres to poisonous jabs at court life and its pretenders." "Peter Cole's selection includes poems from nearly all of Ibn Gabirol's secular and liturgical genres, as well as a complete translation of the poet's cosmological masterpiece, "Kingdom's Crown." Cole's introduction places the poetry in historical context and charts its influence through the centuries. Extensive annotations."--Jacket.

• 1. Seculares.

• sefer
• 1. shire ḥol.--sefer
• 2. heʻarot u-ve'urim li-sefer 1.--sefer
• 3. shire ḳodesh.--sefer
• 4. heʻarot u-ve'urim li-sefer 3.--[sefer]
• 5. milu'im 1.

• Kerekh
• 1. Rosh ha-shanah ṿe-yom ha-kipurim.--Kerekh
• 2. Shalosh regalim ṿe-yeter ha-shirim.