Abraham ibn Muhajir
Abraham ibn Muhajir · Historical & Religious Figures
Jewish vizier at the court of Seville, patron of the community and of the golden age of Hebrew poetry
XIe siècle, al-Andalus (Espagne) — après 1100, Séville, al-Andalus
Séville
Abraham ibn Muhajir is recognized among Jewish contributors to Historical & Religious Figures — Jewish vizier at the court of Seville, patron of the community and of the golden age of Hebrew poetry
Origins and early life
Abraham ben Meir ibn Muhajir lived in Seville around the year 1100, in the last brilliant generation of al-Andalus before the Almoravid conquest.
Work and career
A Jew who held the title of vizier at the Abbadid court of al-Mu'tamid, he was learned in astronomy and in Talmud, and his household was one of the pillars of Andalusian Jewry — his brothers Joseph and Oheb both bore the honorific ha-Nasi, the Prince, and Joseph is said to have welcomed the great legal scholar Isaac Alfasi on his arrival in Spain. The Hebrew poets of the golden age made his name endure: renowned for ransoming Jewish captives and sustaining the community in times of crisis, he received from Moses ibn Ezra the dedication of the celebrated Sefer ha-Anak, also called the Tarshish, and Judah Halevi too addressed verses to him or to his circle.
One caution belongs in this fiche: nineteenth-century scholars debated whether an 'Abu Ishaq ibn al-Muhajir' named in some poems is this same man or a kinsman — the debate concerns the poems, not his existence, his office or his Jewishness. He died after 1100.
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Jewish vizier at the court of Seville, patron of the community and of the golden age of Hebrew poetry
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