Judah ibn Shabbethai (Hebrew: יהודה בן שבתי) was a Jewish poet in al-Andalus at the end of the 12th century.
Judah was a master of the "mosaic" style, and skillfully applied Biblical and Talmudic phrases; his humor was spontaneous.
The former work, also called the Melek Rab, is in the style of the maqama, in rimed prose interspersed with short poems.
Minḥat Yehudah Sone ha-Nashim (called also Sefer Zeraḥ or Taḥkemoni) likewise is written in the style of the maqama.
Like the Milḥemet, it appears to have been first printed at Constantinople, in 1543, the last reprint being in Eliezer ben Solomon Ashkenazi's Ṭa'am Zeḳenim (Frankfurt, 1854).