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HASDAI IBN SHAPRUT

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IBN SHAPRUT , the founder of the new culture of the See also:Jews in Moorish See also:Spain in the loth See also:century. He was both physician and See also:minister to See also:Caliph Abd ar-Rahman III. in See also:Cordova. A See also:man of wide learning and culture, he encouraged the See also:settlement of Jewish scholars in See also:Andalusia, and his patronage of literature, See also:science and See also:art promoted the Jewish See also:renaissance in See also:Europe. See also:Poetry, See also:philology, See also:philosophy all flourished under his encouragement, and his name was handed down to posterity as the first of the many See also:Spanish Jews who combined See also:diplomatic skill with See also:artistic culture. This type was the creation of the See also:Moors in Andalusia, and the Jews ably seconded the Mahommedans in the effort to make See also:life at once broad and deep. (I.

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