Solomon ibn Gabirol

Solomon ibn Gabirol or Solomon ben Judah (, ; , ) was an 11th-century Jewish poet and philosopher in the neoplatonic tradition in Al-Andalus. He published over a hundred poems, as well as works of Hebrew Biblical exegesis, philosophy, ethics, Its chief doctrines are:

Ethics

The Improvement of the Moral Qualities Sight Hearing Pride Meekness Pudency Impudence Love Hate Mercy Hard-heartedness (cruelty) Smell Taste Wrath Good-will (suavity) Jealousy Wide-awakeness Joy (cheerfulness) Grief (apprehensiveness) Tranquillity Penitence (remorse) Touch Liberality Miserliness Valor Cowardice

The Improvement of the Moral Qualities, originally written in Arabic under the title Islah al-Khlaq , and later translated by Ibn Tibbon as (, ) is an ethical treatise that has been called by Munk "a popular manual of morals." calls Gabirol, not ben Labrat, "the writer of metric songs," and in Sefer Zaḥot uses Gabirol's poems to illustrate various poetic meters. Shachar Abakeshcha.

Gabirol's poetry has been set to music by the modern composer Aaron Jay Kernis, in an album titled "Symphony of Meditations."

In 2007 Gabirol's poetry has been set to music by the Israeli rock guitarist Berry Sakharof and the Israeli modern composer Rea Mochiach, in a piece titled "Red Lips" ("Adumey Ha-Sefatot" "אֲדֻמֵּי הַשְּׂפָתוֹת")

Editions and translations , vol. 1, vol. 2, vol. 3, vol. 4, vol. 5, vol. 6. Shelomoh Ibn Gabirol, shirei ha-ḥol, ed. by H. Brody and J. Schirmann (Jerusalem 1975) Shirei ha-ḥol le-rabbi Shelomoh Ibn Gabirol, ed. by Dov Jarden (Jerusalem, 1975) Selomó Ibn Gabirol, Selección de perlas = Mibḥar ha-penînîm: (máximas morales, sentencias e historietas), trans. by David Gonzalo Maeso (Barcelona: Ameller, 1977) Selomo Ibn Gabirol, Poesía secular, trans. by Elena Romero ([Madrid]: Ediciones Alfaguara, 1978) Šelomoh Ibn Gabirol, Poemas seculares, ed. by M. J. Cano (Granada: Universidad de Granada; [Salamanca]: Universidad Pontificia de Salamanca, 1987) Ibn Gabirol, Poesía religiosa, ed. by María José Cano (Granada: Universidad de Granada, 1992) Selected poems of Solomon Ibn Gabirol, trans. by Peter Cole (Princeton: Princeton University Press, 2001)