Medieval · c. 1021–1058
Who influenced Solomon ibn Gabirol?
Influences and legacy
Neoplatonist poet whose Fountain of Life reached the Latin West as Avicebron.
Solomon ibn Gabirol was influenced by Saadia Gaon, and went on to influence Maimonides. That is 2 lines of the 448 documented lines of influence between the 279 thinkers on this map.
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Who was Solomon ibn Gabirol?
Solomon ibn Gabirol was an 11th-century Jewish poet and Neoplatonic philosopher in al-Andalus who wrote more than a hundred poems as well as biblical commentary, ethics and satire.
Medieval translators turned his name into Avicebron, and only in the 19th century did scholars realise that the respected philosopher Avicebron was ibn Gabirol. He is known for universal hylomorphism, the doctrine that everything, souls and intellects included, is made of matter and form, and for his stress on the divine will.
Summarized from the lead of the Wikipedia article.
Who influenced Solomon ibn Gabirol?
1 direct influence on this map, earliest first.
- Saadia Gaon 882–942
Who did Solomon ibn Gabirol influence?
1 thinker on this map draws directly on Solomon ibn Gabirol.
- Maimonides 1138–1204
The line of teachers behind Solomon ibn Gabirol
The longest documented line of influence ending at Solomon ibn Gabirol runs 7 generations back, to Thales of Miletus.
Two steps away from Solomon ibn Gabirol
Indirect influences
- Through Saadia Gaon: Philo of Alexandria
The second generation
- Through Maimonides: Thomas Aquinas, Gersonides, Baruch Spinoza
Contemporaries of Solomon ibn Gabirol
Thinkers on this map born within 25 years of Solomon ibn Gabirol, with no direct line between them.
- Ramanuja 1017–1137
- Anselm of Canterbury 1033–1109
Solomon ibn Gabirol by the numbers
- Direct influences
- 1
- Direct followers
- 1
- Thinkers upstream
- 16
- Thinkers downstream
- 139
- Wikipedia languages
- 45 — #43 of 58 among medieval philosophers
- Card rarity
- Rare
Questions about Solomon ibn Gabirol
- Who influenced Solomon ibn Gabirol?
- Saadia Gaon.
- Who did Solomon ibn Gabirol influence?
- Maimonides.
- When did Solomon ibn Gabirol live?
- c. 1021–1058. The map files Solomon ibn Gabirol under the medieval period.
- How rare is the Solomon ibn Gabirol card?
- Wikipedia carries an article on Solomon ibn Gabirol in 45 languages, which makes it a Rare card. Legendary starts at 100 languages, Epic at 50 and Rare at 25.
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