Duties of the Heart

Chovot HaLevavot or Ḥovot HaLebabot, English: Duties of the Heart), is the primary work of the Jewish philosopher Rabbi Bahya ibn Paquda, full name Bahya ben Joseph ibn Pakuda. Ibn Paquda was a Jewish philosopher and rabbi who seemly lived in Saragossa, Spain, in the first half of the eleventh century.
It was written in Judeo-Arabic (but in Hebrew characters) approximately in 1040 under the title Kitab al-Hidāya ilā Fara'id al-Qulūb, Book of Direction to the Duties of the Heart, sometimes titled as Guide to the Duties of the Heart, and translated into Hebrew by Judah ibn Tibbon in the years 1161-80 under the title Chovot HaLevavot.