The basic concept of this book is that in spite of the borrowed Arabic poetical values, medieval Hebrew poetry stubbornly distanced itself from Arabic poetry. The conclusive result of an in-depth comparative examination is that Hebrew poetry combined...
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The basic concept of this book is that in spite of the borrowed Arabic poetical values, medieval Hebrew poetry stubbornly distanced itself from Arabic poetry. The conclusive result of an in-depth comparative examination is that Hebrew poetry combined sele
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Preface; PART ONE INTRODUCTION; Chapter One Secular Hebrew Poetry in Spain as Courtly Poetry: Is It Indeed?; Chapter Two The Secular Hebrew Poet as Culture Hero in the Middle Ages; PART TWO GENRES AND THEMES; Chapter Three. The Land of Israel and the National Theme in Hebrew Poetry from Sa'adia Gaon to Šemuel Ha-Nagid; Chapter Four The Religious Element in the War Poems of Šemuel Ha-Nagid and in the Arabic Panegyrics in Andalusia; Chapter Five Love in Hebrew Secular Poetry in the Setting of Medieval Arabic Poetry
Chapter Six Music and Musical Instruments in Spanish Medieval Hebrew Poetry: The Poem of Yosef Ibn Saddīq (Justo) in Praise of Yishaq Ibn BarunChapter Seven The Chase as an Allegory for the Wrong and Sufferings in the World as Found in Taḥkemoni by Yehuda Alḥarizi against the Background of Arabic Poetry; PART THREE POETRY AND WISDOM; Chapter Eight The Beloved Woman as a Metaphor for Divine Wisdom in the Poems of Šelomo ibn Gabirol; Chapter Nine Šelomo Ibn Gabirol: He That, From His Youth, Chose Wisdom
Chapter Ten Body and Soul in Spanish Hebrew Poetry against the Background of Muslim-Arabic CultureChapter Eleven The Hebrew Transcription of Risālat al-Ḥātimī: A comparative study between sayings attributed to Aristotle and poetic verses attributed to Mutanabbī (Cambridge, T.S., Arabic, 45.2); PART FOUR ARABIC RHETORIC AND POETRY IN MEDIEVAL HEBREW POETRY; Chapter Twelve Preliminary Study in Ḥilyat al-Muḥāḍara [ḤM] by Abū 'Alī Muḥammad al-Ḥātimī: The 'Lost' Source of Moše Ibn Ezra for His Kitāb al-Muḥāḍara wa-al-Mudhākara [KMM]
Chapter Thirteen Yehuda Ha-Levi's Hebrew Translations of Arabic PoemsPART FIVE CRITICISM OF VERSE; Chapter Fourteen Yehuda Ha-Levi's Attitude Toward Arabic and Hebrew Secular Poetry and Literature in the Kuzari; Chapter Fifteen Maimonides' Attitude towards Secular Poetry, Secular Arab and Hebrew Literature, Liturgical Poetry, and towards Their Cultural Environment; Chapter Sixteen Šem Ṭov Ibn Falaqera's Critique of Poetry; Bibliography; Index