Saadia
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Saadia is a Jewish name and Arabic name
Arabic name
Long ago, Arabic names were based on a long naming system; most Arabs did not simply have given/middle/family names, but a full chain of names. This system was in use throughout the Arab world. Today however, Arabic names are similar in structure to those of Modern and Western names...

. it can refer to several people:
  • Saadia Gaon
    Saadia Gaon
    Saʻadiah ben Yosef Gaon was a prominent rabbi, Jewish philosopher, and exegete of the Geonic period.The first important rabbinic figure to write extensively in Arabic, he is considered the founder of Judeo-Arabic literature...

     - Ninth century rabbi, philosopher, and exegete of the Geonic period
    Geonim
    Geonim were the presidents of the two great Babylonian, Talmudic Academies of Sura and Pumbedita, in the Abbasid Caliphate, and were the generally accepted spiritual leaders of the Jewish community world wide in the early medieval era, in contrast to the Resh Galuta who wielded secular authority...

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  • Saadia Afzaal
    Saadia Afzaal
    Saadia Afzaal is a Pakistani journalist and television news anchor. She is known for her show Nuqta-e-Aitraz on PTV News.She hosts a political talk show in which top Pakistani politicians, international politicians from the government and opposition members plus global analysts and other famous...

     - Pakistani journalist and television news anchor.

  • Saadia Marciano
    Saadia Marciano
    Saadia Marciano was an Israeli social activist and politician, and founder of the Israeli Black Panthers.-Biography:Born in Oujda, Morocco in 1950, Marciano's family immigrated to Israel before his first birthday, where he grew up in the Musrara neighborhood of Jerusalem...

     - Israeli social activist, politician, and founder of the Black Panthers.

  • Saadia Himi
    Saadia Himi
    Saadia Himi is a model and a beautyqueen from The Netherlands.Himi won the Miss Netherlands Earth 2004 beauty pageant and went on to represent the Netherlands in the Miss Earth 2004 pageant held in Quezon City, The Philippines.-External links:*...

     - Dutch model and beauty queen.

  • Dany Saadia
    Dany Saadia
    Dany Saadia is a Mexican interactive entrepreneur, screenwriter and filmmaker.- Early life and education :Saadia was born in Mexico City to Victor Saadia and Lisette, both French citizens who moved to Mexico after World War 2...

     - Mexican entrepreneur, screenwriter, and filmmaker.

  • Saadia Kobashi
    Saadia Kobashi
    Saadia Kobashi was a leader of the Yemenite Jewish community in Israel, and one of the signatories of the country's declaration of independence.Born in Yemen, he immigrated to Ottoman Palestine in 1909, settling in Jerusalem....

     - Leader of Yemenite Jews
    Yemenite Jews
    Yemenite Jews are those Jews who live, or whose recent ancestors lived, in Yemen . Between June 1949 and September 1950, the overwhelming majority of Yemen's Jewish population was transported to Israel in Operation Magic Carpet...

     in Israel and one of the signatories to Israel's declaration of independence.

  • Nouara Saadia
    Nouara Saadia
    Nouara Saâdia Djaâfar in Setif, Algeria, is an Algerian politician, and Minister responsible for Family and Women.-Sources:***...

     - Algerian politician

  • Saadia Ibn Danan
    Saadia Ibn Danan
    Rabbi Saadiah ben Maimon ben Moshe ibn Danan was a grammarian of Hebrew and Arabic, poet and a halachic authority. He served as a dayan in Granada, and after the expulsion of Jews from Spain settled in Oran...

     - Fifteenth century rabbi, poet, and Dayan in Grenada
    Grenada
    Grenada is an island country and Commonwealth Realm consisting of the island of Grenada and six smaller islands at the southern end of the Grenadines in the southeastern Caribbean Sea...

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