Hasdaï ibn Shaprut

Hasdaï Ben Shatprut is a doctor, philosopher and poet Juif séfarade, friend of the caliph omeyyade of Cordoue Abd Al-Rahman III, it is named after 929 by the caliph responsible for the customs and the foreign trade. He appears a qualified administrator, thus the caliph consults it in connection with the businesses of the State. He persuades Abd Al-Rahman III to fight the pirates of the Mediterranean at the sides of the Byzantines and would have written a letter with the king of the Khazars, converted with the Judaism.

Diplomat, it obtains an peace agreement with the king Ordoño III of the Asturies and the duke of Castille (955). He looks after the king of León Sanche Ier the Fat for his obesity and this one renews peace with the caliph. Doctor, it redécouvre the components of an old panacea, the theriaca , whose secret formula had been lost.

At the same time philosopher and poet, it translates into Arabic materia medica , a manuscript of the Greek doctor Dioscoride (of Arnazarbe), sent by the Byzantine emperor Constantin VII Porphyrogénète. Hasdaï supports other Jewish intellectuals, poets and exégètes, whose manuscripts thus reached us (Jacob Al-Turtusi, Juda Ben Sheshet, Dunash Ben Labrat, Menahem Ben Saruq, Moïse Ben Hanoch, etc). They communicate with the rabbinical center of Babylon where the final version Talmud under the aegis of Saadia Gaon develops.

Hasdaï ibn Shaprut dies in 970 at the 65 years age.

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