Judah ben Nissim al-Malkah was a Moroccan, Jewish writer and philosopher living in the 13th century.[1] His main work is Uns al-Gharīb[2] (The Consolation of the Exiled). He also wrote a commentary on the Pirke De-Rabbi Eliezer and Tafsīr al-Salawāt, a commentary on liturgy and a work on astrology, which probably bore the title Kitāb al-Miftāh (The Key Book).