Solomon ben Abraham ibn Parhon

Who is Solomon ben Abraham ibn Parhon?

Solomon ben Abraham ibn Parhon was a Spanish philologist of the 12th century, a native of Ḳal'ah, Aragon. In the preface to his lexicon he mentions as his teachers, besides a certain R. Ephraim of whom nothing more is known, the two great Spanish scholars Judah ha-Levi and Abraham ibn Ezra. Ibn Parḥon refers also to conversations with Judah ha-Levi, mentioning, for example, his remarkable assertion regarding the inadmissibility of meter in Hebrew poetry, and tells of the sojourn of Ha-Levi and Ibn Ezra in North Africa.