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1. Ḥasdai I.: Third exilarch of the Arabian period; died in 730. He was a descendant of Bostanai I. asdai, who also, after his father's death, became exilarch. (Jewish encyclopedia 1906) [100%] 1906-01-01 [Jewish encyclopedia 1906]
2. Ḥasdai Ben Solomon: His friend (and probably fellow pupil) Isaac b. He officiated as rabbi until 1379, when the plague broke out in Tudela. Still unmarried, he went to Valencia, where he found a position as rabbi. (Jewish encyclopedia 1906) [81%] 1906-01-01 [Jewish encyclopedia 1906]
3. Crescas, Ḥasdai Ben Abraham: Religious philosopher; born in Barcelona, Spain, 1340; died 1410. He was of an illustrious and learned family, in "Ḳore ha-Dorot" falsely designated as of the family (the abbreviation of, found at the end of the genealogy in his own ... (Jewish encyclopedia 1906) [70%] 1906-01-01 [Jewish encyclopedia 1906]
4. Joseph Ben Aḥmad Ibn Ḥasdai: Egyptian physician and medical writer; lived in Cairo at the beginning of the twelfth century. Although his biographer, Ibn Abi Uṣaibi'ah, does not affirm his Jewish descent, there is no doubt that Joseph belonged to the Judæo-Spanish family ... (Jewish encyclopedia 1906) [63%] 1906-01-01 [Jewish encyclopedia 1906]
5. Ḥasdai Ben Samuel Ben Peraḥyah Ha-Kohen: Turkish rabbi; born at Salonica; died there Sept., 1677; claimed descent from Joseph ben Gorion. He was a son of the learned Samuel ben Peraḥyah of Salonica, and a pupil of Rabbi Ḥayyim Shabbethai in that city, where he also ... (Jewish encyclopedia 1906) [57%] 1906-01-01 [Jewish encyclopedia 1906]
6. Ḥasdai (Ḥisdai), Abu Al-Faḍl Ben Joseph Ibn: Jewish convert to Islam; lived at Saragossa in the second half of the eleventh century. Ibn Abi 'Uṣaibia ("'Uyun al-Anba fi Ṭabaḳat al-Aṭibba") pompously calls him a descendant of the prophet Moses. He relates further that Ḥasdai was ... (Jewish encyclopedia 1906) [53%] 1906-01-01 [Jewish encyclopedia 1906]
7. ḤAsdai Ibn Shaprut: Asdai Ibn Shaprut, the founder of the new culture of the Jews in Moorish Spain in the 10th century. He was both physician and minister to Caliph Abd ar-Raḥman III. A man of wide learning and culture, he encouraged ... [81%] 2022-09-02
8. Daniel Ben Solomon (Ben Ḥasdai): Exilarch at Bagdad in the second half of the twelfth century. According to Pethahiah, Daniel's father, Solomon, was highly esteemed by the calif, a circumstance that for a time lent new dignity to the exilarchate, which had sunk into ... (Jewish encyclopedia 1906) [63%] 1906-01-01 [Jewish encyclopedia 1906]
9. Ḥasdai, Abraham Ben Samuel Halevi: Hebrew translator; lived in Barcelona about 1230. He is supposed to have been the son of the poet Samuel ibn Abraham ibn Ḥasdai ha-Levi (1165-1216; Grätz, "Geschichte," vi. Abraham Ḥasdai was an enthusiastic partizan of Maimonides, and took ... (Jewish encyclopedia 1906) [63%] 1906-01-01 [Jewish encyclopedia 1906]
10. Ḥasdai, Abu Omar Joseph Ibn: Judæo-Spanish poet of the eleventh century; probably born at Cordova; died between 1045 and 1055. between 1050 and 1055), speaks of Joseph as already dead. He saw him at Saragossa, whither he had gone from Cordova. (Jewish encyclopedia 1906) [63%] 1906-01-01 [Jewish encyclopedia 1906]
11. Ḥasdai, Abu Yusuf (Ben Isaac Ben Ezra) Ibn Shaprut (Shabrut, Shafrut, Bashrut,: Spanish physician, diplomat, and patron of Jewish science; born about 915 at Jaen; died 970 or 990 at Cordova. His father was a wealthy and learned Jew of Jaen. asdai acquired in his youth a thorough knowledge of Hebrew, Arabic ... (Jewish encyclopedia 1906) [40%] 1906-01-01 [Jewish encyclopedia 1906]