Shmuel Ha-Nagid, Hasdai Ibn Shaprut, and Rabbi Moshe ben Hanoch founded the Lucena Yeshiva that produced such brilliant scholars as Rabbi Yitzhak ibn Ghiath and Rabbi Maimon ben Yosef ( father of Maimonides ).

Isaac ben Sheshet Perfet, of Barcelona, studied under Hasdai Crescas and Rabbi Nissim ben Reuben Gerondi.

Hasdai Crescas was a student of Nissim ben Reuben Gerondi, who in turn was a student of Reuben ben Nissim Gerondi.

* Hasdai ben Solomon, rabbi ( JE )

The list of the exilarchs down to the end of the 9th century is given as follows in an old document " Mediæval Jewish Chronicles ," i. 196: " Bostanai, Hanina ben Adoi, Hasdai I, Solomon, Isaac Iskawi I, Judah Zakkai ( Babawai ), Moses, Isaac Iskawi II, David ben Judah, Hasdai II.

Pethahiah of Regensburg also refers to the latter, but under the name of " Daniel ben Solomon "; hence it must be assumed that Hasdai was also called " Solomon.

' Abd al-Rahman's court physician and minister was Hasdai ben Isaac ibn Shaprut, the patron of Menahem ben Saruq, Dunash ben Labrat, and other Jewish scholars and poets.

His closest disciples were the Rivash ( Isaac ben Sheshet ) and Hasdai Crescas.

The Sinagoga Major is on the left. Hasdai Crescas came from a family of scholars ; he was a disciple of the Talmudist and philosopher Nissim ben Reuben, known as The RaN.

But Abraham ben Hasdai, quoting the biographer Sanah ibn Sa ' id al-Kurtubi (" Orient, Lit.

The Hebrew translation was made by Abraham ben Hasdai at the request of the grammarian David Kimhi.

Hasdai ( Abu Yusuf ben Yitzhak ben Ezra ) ibn Shaprut ( Hebrew: חסדאי אבן שפרוט ) born about 915 at Jaén ; died about 975 at Córdoba in Spain, was a Jewish scholar, physician, diplomat, and patron of science.

Isaac ibn Ezra ( son of Abraham ibn Ezra ibn Shaprut ), had a son named Hasdai ben Isaac ibn ezra bn Shaprut ( Abu Yusuf ben Yitzhak bin Ezra ibn Shaprut ).

Another of his astronomical works, prepared for Hasdai ben Isaac ibn Shaprut, the Jewish statesman of Cordova, consisted of three parts: ( 1 ) the nature of the spheres ; ( 2 ) astronomical calculations ; ( 3 ) the courses of the stars.

Among well known ( generally non-kabbalist or anti-kabbalist ) Rabbis who rejected the idea of reincarnation are Saadia Gaon, David Kimhi, Hasdai Crescas, Yedayah Bedershi ( early 14th century ), Joseph Albo, Abraham ibn Daud, the Rosh and Leon de Modena.

In Maimonides ' time, his list of tenets was criticized by Hasdai Crescas and Joseph Albo.

The most rigorous medieval critique of Maimonides is Hasdai Crescas ' Or Adonai.

* probable – Hasdai Crescas, Jewish philosopher

" On the topic of omniscience and free will, Jacobs writes that in the medieval period, three views were put forth: Maimonides, who wrote that God had foreknowledge and man is free ; Gersonides, who wrote that man is free and consequently God does not have complete knowledge, and Hasdai Crescas, who wrote in Or Adonai that God has complete foreknowledge and consequently God is not really free.

Accordingly, Hasdai Crescas mentions Ibn Daud as the only Jewish philosopher among the predecessors of Maimonides.

Hasdai Crescas, of Barcelona, was a leading rationalist on issues of natural law and free-will.

Joseph Albo, of Monreal, was a student of Hasdai Crescas.

His most important work, Rosh Amanah (" The Pinnacle of Faith "), defends Maimonides ' thirteen articles of belief against attacks of Hasdai Crescas and Yosef Albo.

Accordingly, Hasdai Crescas mentions Ibn Daud as the only Jewish philosopher among the predecessors of Maimonides ( Or Adonai, ch.

* Hasdai Crescas ( c. 1340, Barcelona – 1410 / 1411 ), a Catalan Jewish philosopher, halakhist

* Hasdai Crescas

* Hasdai ibn Crescas

* Hasdai Ibn Crescas

* Hasdai Crescas ( 1340-1410 )

His teacher was Hasdai Crescas, author of Or Adonai.

** Daniel Lasker: Sefer Bittul Iqqarei Ha-Nozrim by R. Hasdai Crescas.

* Warren Zev Harvey, Physics and Metaphysics in Hasdai Crescas, Amsterdam Studies in Jewish Thought, J. C. Gieben, Amsterdam, 1998.

* Warren Zev Harvey, Great Spirit and Creativity within the Jewish Nation: Rabbi Hasdai Crescas ( Hebrew ), Mercaz, Zalman Shazar, Jerusalem 2010.

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' Ukba is mentioned as exilarch immediately following Hasdai II ; he was deposed at the instigation of Kohen Zedek, gaon of Pumbedita, but was reinstated in 918 on account of some Arabic verses with which he greeted the calif Al-Muktadir.

Hasdai was sent to the court of Navarre ; and he succeeded after a long struggle in persuading the queen to go to Córdoba with her son and grandson, in order to prostrate herself before the caliph, her old enemy, and implore the aid of his arms ( 958 ).

Allegedly, When he heard that in Central Asia there was a Jewish state with a Jewish ruler, he desired to enter into correspondence with this monarch ; and when the report of the existence of the state of the Khazars was confirmed by two Jews, Mar Saul and Mar Joseph, who had come in the retinue of an embassy from the Croatian king to Córdoba, Hasdai entrusted to them a letter, written in good Hebrew addressed to the Jewish king, in which he gave an account of his position in the Western state, described the geographical situation of Andalusia and its relation to foreign countries, and asked for detailed information in regard to the Khazars, their origin, their political and military organization, etc.

* Filosseno Luzzatto, Notice sur Abou-Jousouf Hasdai ibn-Shaprout, Paris, 1852 ;

Ibn Abi ' UKaibia writes of him: " Hasdai b. Isaac was among the foremost Jewish scholars versed in their law.

While defending Maimonides against Hasdai and Albo, he refused to accept dogmatic articles for Judaism, criticizing any formulation as minimizing acceptance of all 613 mitzvot.

Hasdai I was probably Bostanai's grandson.

The following list of Karaite exilarchs, father being succeeded always by son, is given in the genealogy of one of these " Karaite princes ": Anan, Saul, Josiah, Boaz, Jehoshaphat, David, Solomon, Hezekiah, Hasdai, Solomon II " Likkute Kadmoniyyot ," ii.

Preceding Hasdai II's name in the list that of his father Natronai must be inserted.

" Benjamin of Tudela in 1170 mentions the exilarch Hasdai, among whose pupils was the subsequent pseudo-Messiah David Alroy, and Hasdai's son, the exilarch Daniel.