Samuel ibn Naghrillah, also known as Samuel HaNagid and Isma’il ibn Naghrilla, was a medieval Sephardic Jewish Talmudic scholar, grammarian, philologist, soldier, merchant, politician, and an influential poet who lived in Iberia at the time of the Moorish rule. His poetry was one area through which he was well known. He was perhaps the most politically influential Jew in Islamic Spain. He was also the Prime Minister of the Muslim state of Granada and battlefield commander of the non-Jewish Granadan army.
