IBN DAUD, ABRAHAM

(c. 1110-80)

Spanish historian, philosopher, physician and astronomer. He was born in Cordoba and settled in Toledo. HisEmunah Ramah(Sublime Faith) is a philosophical treatise based on Aristotelian principles. In this work he explores central problems connected with God, the soul, prophecy and creation, and free will. HisSepher ha-Kabbalah(Book of Tradition) relates the history of talmudic scholarship to his own day.