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The Jewish Ahl al-Adab of al-Andalus

In: Journal of Arabic Literature
Author:
Jonathan Decter Brandeis University

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11 Nov 2019
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Abstract

This article studies the use of adab and related terminology among medieval Jewish authors with particular attention to shifts in cultural and religious sensibilities, matters of group cohesion and self-definition, and the contours of adab discourse across religious boundaries. The article demonstrates that, although Jews in the Islamic East in the tenth century internalized adab as a cultural concept, it was in al-Andalus that Jews first self-consciously presented themselves as udabā. The article focuses on works of Judeo-Arabic biblical exegesis, grammar, and poetics as well as Hebrew poetry composed after the style of Arabic poetry.

Title:
The Jewish Ahl al-Adab of al-Andalus
Article Type:
Research Article
DOI:
https://doi.org/10.1163/1570064x-12341390
Language:
English
Pages:
325–341
Keywords:
Jews; adab; Muslim-Jewish relations; Judeo-Arabic; Hebrew poetry; musar; Moses Ibn Ezra; Jonah Ibn Janah; Saʿadia Gaon
In:
Journal of Arabic Literature
In:
Volume 50: Issue 3-4
Publisher:
Brill
E-ISSN:
1570-064x
Print ISSN:
0085-2376
Subjects:
Literature, Middle East and Islamic Studies, Comparative Studies & World Literature, Literature and Cultural Studies, Criticism & Theory, Cultural History, Literary Relations

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