Hasdai I

{{Short description|Jewish Exilarch}}

Hasdai, or Hisday, a derivative of 'Hasadiah' ({{langx|he|חֲסַדְיָה}}), was a Jewish Exilarch of the late 7th century AD, succeeding his father Bostanai to the office.גרוסמן, אברהם, and A. Grossman. "From Father to Son: The Inheritance of the Spiritual Leadership of the Jewish Communities in the Early Middle Ages / ירושת אבות בהנהגה הרוחנית של קהילות ישראל בימי הביניים המוקדמים." Zion / ציון נ (1985): 189-220. Accessed August 13, 2021. http://www.jstor.org/stable/23559936.Worman, E. J. "The Exilarch Bustānī." The Jewish Quarterly Review 20, no. 2 (1908): 211-15. Accessed August 13, 2021. doi:10.2307/1450853. Some sources allege he left no male heirs,Goode, Alexander D. "The Exilarchate in the Eastern Caliphate, 637-1258." The Jewish Quarterly Review, New Series, 31, no. 2 (1940): 149-69. Accessed August 13, 2021. doi:10.2307/1452602. and the succession went with the descendants of his brother, Baradoi. Alternatively, the exilarch Solomon I is said to be his son and eventually heir.Judaeo Arabic Studies. Gil, Moshe. (2013). Volume III of Studies in Muslim-Jewish relations. p. 164 Little to nothing is known about his tenure as exilarch beyond the legal dispute that he had with his Persian half-siblings and their mother.