Ḥasday ben Isaac ibn Shaprūṭ (ca. 905–ca. 975) was a scholar, physician, and trusted adviser at the court of the Umayyad caliphs ʿAbd al-Raḥmān III and al-Ḥakam II in Cordova. As patron of the first Jewish intellectuals and poets in al-Andalus, he played a decisive role in fostering a brilliant Jewish cultural effloresence that assimilated many elements of Arabic high culture.