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Zakhor
HistoryFigurec. 640

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Gaon of Sura at the time of the Arab conquest, he negotiated the status of the Jewish community of Babylonia with the new Muslim masters. The transition to Arab rule inaugurated an era of relative tolerance that allowed the intellectual flourishing of Babylonian Judaism.

A book yet to be written

This Great Book has not been written yet. You can start it right here: Claude composes an original work from the archive pieces in the corpus and from web research, then enriches it with every new source contributed.

The days of this book

This book bears no memory day yet. The sources that document Mar Isaac give years and centuries, never a day; we do not invent one.

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