Concept

Geonim

Overview

Heads of the Babylonian Talmudic Academies (6th to 11th-century)

Overview adapted from Wikipedia (CC BY-SA 4.0; see the article history for authors).

Philosophers who discussed Geonim

• Saadia Gaon
• Maimonides
• Abraham ibn Daud
• Jews
• Abraham Joshua Heschel
• Isaac Aboab I
• Isaac Canpanton

Related ideas

• Hebrew language
• Halakha
• Yeshiva
• Sanhedrin
• Jewish philosophy
• Saadia Gaon
• Maimonides
• Mishnah
• The Book of Beliefs and Opinions
• Siddur
• Torah
• Hebrew Bible
• Talmud
• Thessaloniki
• Kairouan
• Abbasid Caliphate
• Early Middle Ages
• Constantinople
• Sura Academy
• Talmudic academies in Babylonia
• Hezekiah ben David

Place in the tradition

Part of Jewish philosophy.

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