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abraham 1285 , vat . ebr . 597 leaf 113 recto abulafia 's `` light of the intellect '' 1271 -- 1291 abraham abulafia.jpg abraham abulafia
 abraham abulafia philosopher and writer
abraham abulafia

abraham ben samuel abulafia -lrb- -rrb- , the founder of the school of `` prophetic kabbalah '' , was born in zaragoza , spain , in 1240 , and is assumed to have died sometime after 1291 , following a stay on the small and windswept island of comino , the smallest of the three inhabited islands that make up the maltese archipelago .
