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Comparative Time TableEra of Rishonim, c. 1000-1500

632 Mohammed’s death 661-750 Umayyad Dynasty

711 Muslim Spain

882-942 Saadiah Gaon 993-1055 Samuel HaNagid 1038 d. Hai Gaon 1021-1058 S. Ibn Gabirol 1013-1103 Isaac Alfasi

1089 b. Abraham Ibn Ezra

1148 Almohads take Cordoba

1138-1204 Maimonides

1492 Granada, Expulsion

742-814 Charlemagne (Charles the Gr) 778-840 Louis the Pious c. 917 Kalonymus to Mainz c. 1000 R. Gershom active

1040-1105 Rashi 1079-1142 Peter Abelard 1096 First Crusades c. 1100-1250 Tosafists

1100-1171 Rabbeinu Tam

c. 1150-70 Univ. of Paris est. 1215 Fourth Lateran Council c. 1230 d. Eleazar of Worms c. 1270 Altneuschul, Prague 1348-50 Black Death

Altneuschul Prague, built c. 1270