Spanish Hebrew Poetry and the Arabic Literary Tradition

Arabic Themes in Hebrew Andalusian Poetry
Erscheinungsjahr 1993
ISBN: 978-90-04-09869-5
Verlag: Brill

Buch, Englisch, Band 7, 376 Seiten, Format (B × H): 162 mm x 247 mm, Gewicht: 826 g

Reihe: Medieval Iberian Peninsula

Offers an introduction to the history of the Jews of the Iberian peninsula and the political situation of Muslim Spain during the 11th century as well as an introduction to Arabic poetry, its genres and poetical theory, and the relation between Arabic poetry from the East and that of al-Andalus. This book deals extensively with the different Arabic poetic genres and their Hebrew equivalents, focusing on the four main poets Samuel Ha-Nagid, Solomon Ibn Gabirol, Moses Ibn Ezra and Yehuda Ha-Lewi. At the end conclusions are drawn about the use of Arabic themes in Hebrew Andalusian poetry.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Schippers, Arie

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Jüdische Studien Jüdische Studien

Über Autor(innen)

Arie Schippers, Ph.D. (1988) in Literature, University of Amsterdam, where he now teaches in the Department of Arabic & Islamic Studies. His undergraduate work was in Semitic and Romance languages at the University of Leiden. He has published several articles on both classical Arabic and Hebrew Andalusian poetry and Arabic and Hebrew literature in general.