Avicebron

Ibn Gabirol (in Latin, Avicebron, Avencebrol, etc.) was an Iberian Jewish author whose Fountain of Life was written in Arabic.

Medieval Philosophy Spade, Paul Vincent 2004

Gabirol's philosophical work was in the course of time forgotten among the Jews, though his name Avicebron as well as some of his chief doctrines were well known to the Scholastic writers.

A History of Mediaeval Jewish Philosophy Isaac Husik 1907

William instead follows the practice of Avicenna and Avicebron and composes treatises much more akin to a modern book.

William of Auvergne Lewis, Neil 2008

According to Avicebron, as well as some of William's contemporaries, souls are composite in the sense that they are composites of form and matter, though not a matter that involves physical dimensions, but rather what some called

William of Auvergne Lewis, Neil 2008

Thus Albert is quick to point out that Avicebron in the Fons vitae is “the only [philosopher] who says that from one simple principle two [things] must immediately proceed in the order of nature, since the number ˜two™ follows upon unity.”

Binarium Famosissimum Spade, Paul Vincent 2008

Instead, he follows the Jewish thinker, Avicebron (whom he thought was a Christian) and holds that creatures come from God not insofar as he is one, but “through his will and insofar as he wills, just as a potter does not shape clay vessels through his oneness, but through his will” (OO I, 624a; Teske 1998a, 96).

William of Auvergne Lewis, Neil 2008

William was one of the first thinkers in the Latin West to begin to engage seriously with Aristotle's writings on metaphysics and natural philosophy and with the thought of Islamic and Jewish thinkers, especially Avicenna (Ibn Sīnā, 980-1037) and Avicebron

William of Auvergne Lewis, Neil 2008

And Saint Thomas notes: “Some say that the soul and absolutely every substance besides God is composed of matter and form; indeed the first author to hold this position is Avicebron, the author of Liber fons vitae.”

Binarium Famosissimum Spade, Paul Vincent 2008

The great figure of Medieval Judaism Shelomo Ibn Gabirol or Avicebron (1021-1058) was also a talented philosopher.

Ibn Bajja Montada, Josep Puig 2007

It was Munk who showed on the basis of Falaquera's Hebrew version that Avicebron was Jewish and none other than Ibn Gabirol, and that the Fons vitae was Ibn Gabirol's Meqor Hayyim.

Shem Tov Ibn Falaquera Harvey, Steve 2007