Judah ben Nissim

Judah ben Nissim Ibn Malka was a Moroccan, Jewish writer and philosopher living in the 13th century.Dan Cohn-Sherbok, Medieval Jewish philosophy: an introduction, Routledge, 1996, p. 119 His main work is Uns al-Gharībnew ed. by Editions de l'éclat, 2008 (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).

References

S. Munk, Les Manuscrits Hébreux de l'Oratoire (1911), pp. 15–17 Steinschneider, Uebersetzungen, pp. 405–6 J.M. Toledano, Ner ha-Ma'arav (1911), 41; G. Sarton, Introduction to the History of Science, 3 pt. 2 (1947), 1444 G. Vajda, "Juda ben Nissim Ibn Malka, philosophe juif marocain", in: Homenaje a Millas-Vallicrosa, 2 (1956) 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