Isaac ibn Latif
{{Short description|Jewish philosopher}}
Isaac ibn Latif (c. 1210-1280) was a Jewish philosopher, who lived most of his life in Toledo. In 1238 he published
his first work, a treatise named sha'ar ha-shama'yim ("heaven's gate"), a commentary on Koheles (Ecclesiastes).
{{cite web |url=http://www.jewishvirtuallibrary.org/jsource/judaica/ejud_0002_0012_0_11920.html
|title=Latif, Isaac b. Abraham ibn}} Artscroll's Koheles cites from his work.p.98/4:4, p. 104/4:13, p.108/5:1
Other works
Other works by ibn Latif include{{cite web
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|title=ALLATIF, ISAAC BEN ABRAHAM IBN LATIF}}
- Iggeret ha-Teshuvah and
- Tsurat ha-Olam{{cite web
|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=h04wAAAAYAAJ
|title=Tsurat ha-olam - Isaac ben Abraham Ibn Latif|year=1860}} (published 1260;{{cite web
|url=http://worldcat.org/identities/lccn-nr2004036118
|title=Latif, Isaac ben Abraham ibn approximately 1220}} printed 1860 in Vienna).{{cite web
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|title=Manuscript – Tzurat HaOlam by Rabbi Yitzchak Ibn Latif and an Unidentified Work on the Torah – Beginning of 15th Century}}
The earliest printing of his Sefer Rov Po'a'lim{{cite web
|url=https://www.amazon.com/Sefer-Poalim-Hebrew-Rabbi-Yitzhak/dp/B00166SHM0
|title=Sefer Rov Poalim (Hebrew Edition): Yitzhak Ibn Latif}} ספר פעלים,{{cite web
|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=M4ILAQAAIAAJ
|title=ספר פעלים|year=1885}} was in 1885.
Family
His father's name was Abraham (אברהם) ; he had a son named Moses (משה).{{cite web
|url=http://onlinebooks.library.upenn.edu/webbin/book/lookupname?key=Ibn%20Latif%2C%20Moses%20ben%20Isaac
|title=Moses ben Isaac Ibn Latif}}
References
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- Shoey Raz: Latif, Isaac b. Abraham ibn. In: Encyclopaedia Judaica, 2. edition, Vol. 12, Detroit 2007, pp. 506–507 ([http://www.jewishvirtuallibrary.org/jsource/judaica/ejud_0002_0012_0_11920.html online])
- Dan Cohn-Sherbok: Medieval Jewish Philosophy. Routledge 1996, {{ISBN|0-7007-0414-0}}, pp. 117–119 ({{Google books|jO7OfURydycC|online copy |page=117}})
- Harvey J. Hames: The Art of Conversion: Christianity and Kabbalah in the Thirteenth Century. Brill 2000, {{ISBN|90-04-11715-6}}, pp. 56–57 ({{Google books|12agudxj6HUC|online copy |page=56}})
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Category:13th-century Castilian Jews
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