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Mar Ukba ben Judah

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200:, Mar Ukba devised a scheme to win the royal favour by meeting Al-Muqtadir's secretary daily in his gardens and greeting him with the recitation of beautiful verses of poetry. These pleased the Caliphs secretary so much that he wrote them down and showed them to his master, who in his turn was so delighted that he sent for Mar Ukba. When the Caliph saw Mar Ukba, he asked him to express any wish. To this, Mar Ukba requested to be reinstated as Exilarch. The Caliph granted this wish, and soon after, Mar Ukba returned to Baghdad, where he was reinstated as Exilarch in 918. However, only a few months after his reinstatement, Kohen Ẓedeḳ and his friends once again succeeded in securing his deposition and banishment from the country. Following this, Mar Ukba moved to 345: 169:. Following his uncle, Zakkai ben Ahunai's death in 890, he succeeded Zakkai as Exilarch, rather than Zakkai's son David, who was deemed too controversial for the position. Mar Ukba's early years as Exilarch were relatively calm, however, following the appointment of 145:
from 890 until his banishment in 917 AD. He was briefly reinstated again in the year 918, however the following year he was disposed and succeeded by his contentious cousin,
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in 917, a violent controversy broke out between him and Mar Ukba, over the question of the income of the academy from the region of
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in the spring of 917. However, after the young Caliph moved to his summer palace in
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to depose Mar Ukba, which he did in 917. Soon afterward, Mar Ukba moved to
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Exilarch at Baghdad in the first half of the tenth century
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Index

Mar Ukba
Mar Ukva
Mar 'Ukban III (exilarch)
Chazal
Zugot
Tannaim
Amoraim
Savoraim
Geonim
Rishonim
Acharonim
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Hebrew
Babylonian
Exilarch
David ben Zakkai
Baghdad
Iraq
Bostanai
Kohen Tzedek Kahana ben Joseph
Pumbedita Goan
Khorasan
Joseph ben Phinehas
Abbasid Caliph
Al-Muqtadir
Kermanshah
Safran
Kairouan

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