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Hasdai ibn Shaprut
Hasdai ibn Shaprut was a Jewish physician, diplomat and patron at the court of the caliphs Abd al-Rahman III and al-Hakam II in Córdoba. He received foreign embassies, helped prepare an Arabic version of Dioscorides' De materia medica and treated King Sancho I of León. As leader of the Jews of al-Andalus he patronised the scholars who began the golden age of Hebrew poetry and grammar in Spain.
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