Editing Abraham ibn Ezra (section)

==Biography==
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Abraham Ibn Ezra was born in Tudela, one of the oldest and most important [[History of the Jews in Tudela|Jewish communities in Navarre]]. At the time, the town was under the rule of the [[emir]]s of the [[Muslims|Muslim]] Taifa of Zaragoza. However, when he later moved to [[Córdoba, Spain|Córdoba]], he claimed it was his birthplace.<ref name=":2" /> Ultimately, most scholars agree that his place of birth was Tudela.{{cn|date=December 2024}}

From outside sources, little is known of ibn Ezra's family; however, he wrote of a marriage to a wife who produced five children. While it is believed four died early, the last-born, [[Isaac ibn Ezra|Isaac]], became an influential poet and a later convert to [[Islam]] in 1140. His son's [[Conversion to Islam|conversion]] was deeply troubling for ibn Ezra, leading him to pen many poems reacting to the event for years afterward.<ref>{{Cite web|url=http://www.jewishencyclopedia.com/articles/7986-ibn-ezra-isaac-abu-sa-d|title=IBN EZRA, ISAAC (ABU SA'D) - JewishEncyclopedia.com|website=www.jewishencyclopedia.com|access-date=2019-05-22}}</ref>

Ibn Ezra was a close friend of [[Judah Halevi]], who was approximately 14 years older. When ibn Ezra moved to Córdoba as a young man, Halevi followed him. This trend continued when the two began their lives as wanderers in 1137. Halevi died in 1141, but Ibn Ezra continued travelling for three decades, reaching as far as [[Baghdad]]. During his travels, he composed secular poetry of the lands he traveled through and [[Rationalism|rationalist]] [[Jewish commentaries on the Bible|Torah commentaries]] (for which he would be best remembered).<ref name=":2" />

He appears to have been unrelated to the contemporary scholar [[Moses ibn Ezra]].<ref>Mordechai Z. Cohen, ''The Rule of Peshat: Jewish Constructions of the Plain Sense of Scripture and Their Christian and Muslim Contexts, 900-1270'', p. 209</ref>