Azriel, Kabbalist, [548].
Baalbek, captured by the Mongols, [606].
Babylonia, supplanted by Spain as center of Judaism, [210], [228].
Babylonia, Jews of:
independent tribe of, [433] f.
organization and officials of, [96]–[100].
prosperous condition of, [428].
side with Ali, [90].
support the Arab conquerors, [89].
Bacharach (Germany), massacre of the Jews of, [636].
Bachiel Ibn-Alkonstantini, physician to King Jayme of Portugal and Maimunist, [536] f.
Bachya Ibn-Pakuda, moral philosopher, [271]–[3].
Baden (Germany), Jews of, blood-accusation against, and massacre of, [564].
Badis, king of the Berbers, bloody design of, [276] f.
Bagdad, Jews of, [156], [428].
center of science, [146].
congregation of, on the side of Maimonides, [633].
Talmudic school of, [429], [438] f.