Moshe ben Hanokh, Gaon of Cordoba

• Wikipedia: Moses ben Hanoch & משה בן חנוך.
• The Jewish Encyclopedia: Moses ben Enoch.
• About the kidnapping: מעשה ארבעת השבויים
• Primary source about him: Sefer ha-Ḳabbalah ספר הקבלה.

Founder of Talmud study in Cordoba, Spain.

Moses was one of the four scholars who went from Sura, the seat of a once flourishing but then declining Talmudic academy, in order to collect contributions for that school. During a voyage from Bari, on the coast of Italy, they were captured by the Moorish-Spanish admiral Ibn Rumahis, Moses was taken to Cordova.