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Isaac ibn Latif

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Isaac ibn Latif (c. 1210-1280) was a Jewish neoplatonist philosopher, who lived most of his life in Toledo, the capital of the Christian kingdom of Castile. In 1238 he published the treatise schaar ha-schamajim ("heaven's gate").

References

  • Shoey Raz: Latif, Isaac b. Abraham ibn. In: Encyclopaedia Judaica, 2. edition, Vol. 12, Detroit 2007, pp. 506–507 (online)
  • Dan Cohn-Sherbok: Medieval Jewish Philosophy. Routledge 1996, ISBN 0-7007-0414-0, pp. 117–119 (online copy , p. 117, at Google Books)
  • Harvey J. Hames: The Art of Conversion: Christianity and Kabbalah in the Thirteenth Century. Brill 2000, ISBN 90-04-11715-6, pp. 56–57 (online copy , p. 56, at Google Books)
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