Judah ben Nissim

Judah ben Nissim al-Malkah was a Moroccan, Jewish writer and philosopher living in the 13th century.^[1] His main work is Uns al-Gharīb^[2] (The Consolation of the Stranger). He also wrote a commentary on the Pirke De-Rabbi Eliezer and Tafsīr al-Salawāt, a commentary on liturgy and a work on astrology, which probably bore the title Kitāb al-Miftāh (The Key Book).

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• Steinschneider, Uebersetzungen, pp. 405–6
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• G. Sarton, Introduction to the History of Science, 3 pt. 2 (1947), 1444
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• M. Idel, in: Pe'amim, 43 (1990), pp. 4–15.
• Juda Ibn Malka, La consolation de l'expatrié, traduit de l'hébreu et présenté par Paul Fenton, précédé par Georges Vajda, Les commentaires du Sefer yesîrâh. Editions de l'éclat, 2008