Abraham Abulafia
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Abraham Abulafia was a 13th-century Spanish Jewish mystic and philosopher who founded an influential ecstatic school of Kabbalah focused on meditation, letter permutations, and prophetic experience.
All labels observed (2)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Abraham Abulafia canonical | 14 |
| Abulafia | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T158696 — resolving that mention is where its identity was fixed. The disambiguator weighed these candidate entities and picked the highlighted one (or “None”, minting a new entity). This is how homonymy is resolved: the same surface form can point to different entities.
Target entity: Abraham Abulafia Context triple: [Kabbalah, associatedWithFigure, Abraham Abulafia]
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Moses de León
Moses de León was a 13th-century Spanish Jewish mystic and writer traditionally credited with composing or compiling the core text of the Zohar, a foundational work of Kabbalah.
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Saadia Gaon
Saadia Gaon was a 10th-century Jewish philosopher, rabbi, and exegete renowned for his foundational works in Jewish theology, biblical commentary, and translation, particularly in Judeo-Arabic.
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Louis Jacobs
Louis Jacobs was an American businessman best known as a co-founder of the hospitality and food service company Delaware North.
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D.
Maimonides
Maimonides was a medieval Jewish philosopher, legal scholar, and physician whose works, especially "The Guide for the Perplexed," profoundly shaped Jewish thought and influenced later rationalist philosophers.
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E.
Isaac Luria
Isaac Luria was a 16th-century Jewish mystic and rabbi whose innovative teachings in Safed profoundly reshaped Kabbalistic thought and practice.
- F. None of above. chosen
- G. Unsure - the case is ambiguous/there is not enough information to decide.
Target entity: Abraham Abulafia Target entity description: Abraham Abulafia was a 13th-century Spanish Jewish mystic and philosopher who founded an influential ecstatic school of Kabbalah focused on meditation, letter permutations, and prophetic experience.
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A.
Moses de León
Moses de León was a 13th-century Spanish Jewish mystic and writer traditionally credited with composing or compiling the core text of the Zohar, a foundational work of Kabbalah.
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B.
Saadia Gaon
Saadia Gaon was a 10th-century Jewish philosopher, rabbi, and exegete renowned for his foundational works in Jewish theology, biblical commentary, and translation, particularly in Judeo-Arabic.
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C.
Louis Jacobs
Louis Jacobs was an American businessman best known as a co-founder of the hospitality and food service company Delaware North.
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D.
Maimonides
Maimonides was a medieval Jewish philosopher, legal scholar, and physician whose works, especially "The Guide for the Perplexed," profoundly shaped Jewish thought and influenced later rationalist philosophers.
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E.
Isaac Luria
Isaac Luria was a 16th-century Jewish mystic and rabbi whose innovative teachings in Safed profoundly reshaped Kabbalistic thought and practice.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (45)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
Jewish mystic
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Kabbalist ⓘ human ⓘ philosopher ⓘ religious writer ⓘ |
| associatedWith | prophetic Kabbalah ⓘ |
| birthDate | 1240 ⓘ |
| birthPlace |
Kingdom of Aragon
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Zaragoza ⓘ |
| centuryOfActivity | 13th century ⓘ |
| countryOfCitizenship | Kingdom of Aragon ⓘ |
| deathDate | circa 1291 ⓘ |
| describedAs | Spanish Jewish mystic and philosopher ⓘ |
| doctrine |
attainment of prophetic inspiration
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permutation of Hebrew letters ⓘ use of divine names in meditation ⓘ |
| era | High Middle Ages ⓘ |
| ethnicGroup | Sephardi Jew ⓘ |
| familyName |
Abraham Abulafia
self-linksurface differs
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surface form:
Abulafia
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| fieldOfWork |
Jewish philosophy
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Kabbalistic meditation ⓘ |
| founded | ecstatic school of Kabbalah ⓘ |
| givenName | Abraham ⓘ |
| influenced | later Kabbalists ⓘ |
| influencedBy | Maimonides ⓘ |
| languageOfWorkOrName | Hebrew ⓘ |
| mainInterest |
Kabbalah
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letter permutations ⓘ meditation ⓘ mysticism ⓘ prophetic experience ⓘ |
| movement |
Kabbalah
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ecstatic Kabbalah ⓘ |
| name | Abraham Abulafia self-link ⓘ |
| notability | founder of an influential ecstatic school of Kabbalah ⓘ |
| notableWork |
Imrei Shefer
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Or ha-Sekhel ⓘ Otzar Eden Ganuz ⓘ Sefer ha-Ot ⓘ
surface form:
Sefer ha-Heshek
Sefer ha-Ot ⓘ |
| placeOfActivity |
Italy
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Mediterranean Basin ⓘ
surface form:
Mediterranean region
Sicily ⓘ Spain ⓘ |
| religion | Judaism ⓘ |
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Subject: Abraham Abulafia Description of subject: Abraham Abulafia was a 13th-century Spanish Jewish mystic and philosopher who founded an influential ecstatic school of Kabbalah focused on meditation, letter permutations, and prophetic experience.
Referenced by (15)
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