Yehoshua Hanagid (Hebrew: יהושע הנגיד), alternative spelling: Jehoshua Hannagid (1310–1355), was a rabbinic scholar and judge, who began to serve as the Nagid in Cairo, Egypt, at the age of twenty-four. He was the fifth-generation descendant of Rabbi Moshe ben Maimon, the great Spanish Rabbi and philosopher. His full lineage is reckoned as Yehoshua, the son of Avraham, the son of David, the son of Avraham, the son Moshe ben Maimon.[1]
- ^ R. Jehoshua Hannagid Responsa, Yehuda Ratzaby (ed.), Kiryat Ono 1989, Preface (Hebrew).