(c. 1110-80)
Spanish historian, philosopher, physician and astronomer. He was born in Cordoba and settled in Toledo. His Emunah Ramah (Sublime Faith) is a philosophical treatise based on Aristotelian principles. In this work he explores central problems connected with God, the soul, prophecy and creation, and free will. His Sepher ha-Kabbalah (Book of Tradition) relates the history of talmudic scholarship to his own day.
Dictionary of Jewish Biography. Dan Cohn-Sherbok.