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Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Transliteration Tables -- Introduction -- Overview -- Methods and Themes in Saadia's Exegesis of Esther -- 1. The Methodological Framework: Balancing Reason and Tradition -- 2. Interaction with Rabbinic Tradition -- 3. Polemics -- 4. Exploring the Exigence of Dissimulation -- Publication History -- Written Witnesses Employed for the Present Edition -- 1. Primary Witnesses to Saadia's Commentary on Esther (Kitāb al-īnās) -- 2. Secondary Witnesses to Saadia's Commentary on Esther: Judaeo-Arabic Reworkings, Précis, and Citations by Later Medieval Writers -- Editorial Method -- 1. The Basic Text -- 2. The Apparatuses -- Some Methodological Remarks on the Annotated English Translation -- Signs, Sigla, and Abbreviations -- Translation -- The Title and the Introduction -- 1. The First Section (al-Qiṣṣat al-ūlā) -- 1.1. Ad 1:1 -- 1.2. Ad 1:2 -- 1.3. Ad 1:3-4 -- 1.4. Ad 1:5-8 -- 1.5. Ad 1:9-12 -- 1.6. Ad 1:13-22 -- 2. The Second Section (al-Qiṣṣa al-thāniyya) -- 2.1. Ad 2:1-4 -- 2.2. Ad 2:5-7 -- 2.3. Ad 2:8-11 -- 2.4. Ad 2:12-15 -- 2.5. Ad 2:16-20 -- 2.6. Ad 2:21-23 -- 2.7. Ad 3:1-5 -- 3. The Third Section (al-Qiṣṣa al-thālitha) -- Ad 3:6-15 -- 4. The Fourth Section (al-Qiṣṣa al-rābiʿa) -- Ad 4:1-4 -- 5. The Fifth Section (al-Qiṣṣa al-khāmisa) -- 5.1. Ad 4:5-17 -- 5.2. Ad 5:1-14 -- 6. The Sixth Section (al-Qiṣṣa al-sādisa) -- 6.1. Ad 6:1-12 -- 6.2. Ad 6:13-7:10 -- 6.3. Ad 8:1-14 -- 6.4. Ad 8:15-17 -- 6.5. Ad 9:1-19 -- 7. The Seventh Section (al-Qiṣṣa al-sābiʿa) -- 7.1. Ad 9:20-28 -- 7.2. Ad 9:29-32 -- 7.3. Ad 10:1-3 (Epilogue) -- Appendix, Bibliographical Abbreviations, Indices, and Plates -- Appendix. Secondary Judaeo-Arabic Witnesses to Saadia's Commentary on Esther: Edited Texts of the Reworkings and Précis -- 1. An Anonymous Condensed Reworking of Kitāb al-īnās (أ) 2. A Condensed Reworking of Kitāb al-īnās, Encompassing the Commentary on 1:1-11 and the Introduction, in the Commentary of Isaac Gaon ben Israel on Pārāshat Tĕrūmā (Exod 25:1-27:19) (ب ) -- 3. An Anonymous Précis of Saadia's Comment on Esther 3:1-4 (ت) -- 4. An Anonymous Abridged Reworking of Saadia's Comment on Esther 1:1 (ث) -- Bibliographical Abbreviations -- 1. Libraries, Institutes, Organizations, and Manuscript Collections -- 2. Books, Articles, and Works in Manuscript -- Indices -- Manuscripts -- Scriptural References -- 1. Hebrew Bible -- 2. Qurʾān -- Rabbinic Literature -- Medieval Authors and Works -- General Index -- Plates -- 1. MS א (NLR Evr.-Arab. I 3866 [1 א], fol. 2r) ) -- 2. MS ב (CUL T-S Ar.23.44 [1 ב], fol. 3v) -- 3. MS ג (BLO Heb.d.62 [1 ג], fol. 118r) -- 4. MS ד (BLO Heb.f.19 [2 ד], fol. 1r)) -- 5. MS ה (CUL T-S Ar.25.91 [2 ה], fol. 2v) -- 6. MS ו (CUL T-S Ar.25.84 [2 ו], fol. 2r) -- 7. MS ז (CUL T-S Ar.27.51 [2 ז], fol. 1r) -- 8. MS ח (CUL T-S Ar.33.31 [2 ח], verso) -- 9. MS ט (CUL T-S 8Ca1, fol. 3v) -- 10. MS י (CUL T-S Ar.1b.94, fols. 10v & 15r) -- 11. MS כ (CUL T-S Ar.27.98, fol. 2v) -- 12. MS ל (CUL T-S NS 285.30 [1 ל], recto) -- 13. MS מ (CUL T-S NS 163.3, verso) -- 14. MS נ (CUL T-S NS 263.107, recto) -- 15. MS ס (CUL T-S NS 309.52 [1 ס], verso) -- 16. MS ע (BAIU III.B.75 [1 ע], recto) -- 17. MS פ (JTSL ENA 3148 [1 פ], fol. 3v + ENA 3371 [2 פ], fol. 11r) -- 18. MS צ (CUL T-SMisc.6.120, verso) -- 19. MS ק (CUL T-S AS 159.7, recto) -- 20. MS ר (JTSL ENA 3488, fol. 11v) -- 21. MS ש (CUL T-S Ar.21.5, verso) -- 22. MS ת (BLO/CUL L-G Ar.2.100, recto & verso) -- 23. MS אא (JTSL ENA 3218, fol. 4r) -- 24. MS أ (JTSL ENA 2638 [Plate أ 4 ], fol. 22r) -- 25. MS ب(BLO Hunt. 241, fols. 24v-25r) -- 26. MS ت(JTSL ENA 3601, fol. 14v) -- 27. MS ث(CUL T-SMisc.24.158, verso) -- The Edited Text -- Editorial Introduction (Abridged) The Judaeo-Arabic Text of Kitāb al-īnās bi-ʾl-jalwa
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