Medieval Hebrew Poetry in Muslim Egypt - The Secular Poetry of the Karaite Poet Moses Ben Abraham Darʿī. Karaite Texts and Studies, Volume 3

Moses ben Abraham Dar, born in Alexandria into a family of Moroccan Jewish immigrants, lived in Egypt in the middle of the twelfth century. Though he visited Damascus and Jerusalem, he spent most of his professional life as a physician and poet in the Karaite community of Fus -Cairo. This study offers an annotated edition of secular poems taken from the earliest manuscript, NLR Evr. I 802, dated to the fifteenth century. The Hebrew text and Judaeo-Arabic heading of each poem are provided in the original order attested in the manuscript. The introduction to this edition seeks to evaluate Dar s poetry in the light of the Andalusian-Hebrew poetical tradition and within the context of Hebrew literary activity in the Muslim East.

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• Authors: Joachim J M S Yeshaya, Joachim J. M. S. Yeshaya
• Publisher: Brill
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 19.11.2010
• EAN: 9789004191303
• ISBN: 978-90-04-19130-3
• No. of pages: 364
• Weight: 772 g
• Series: Études Sur Le Judaïsme Médiéva
• Subject: Humanities, art, music > Religion/theology > Judaism