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Alternate names/spellings: Solomon ben Judah
Dates: 1021 - 1058 (Dates are approximate. )
Solomon ibn Gabirol, also Solomon ben Judah (Hebrew: שלמה בן יהודה ×בן גבירול‎, Shelomo ben Yehuda ibn Gabirol; Arabic: أبوأيوب سليمان بن ÙŠØيى بن جبيرول‎, Abu AyyÅ«b Suleiman ibn Yahya ibn JabirÅ«l; Latin: Avicebron, a corruption of Ibn Gibran), was an Andalusian Hebrew poet and Jewish philosopher with a Neoplatonic bent. He was born in Málaga c. 1021 and died c. 1058 in Valencia.