Spanish Hebrew Poetry and the Arabic Literary Tradition
Biographical note
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.
Readership
All those interested in medieval literature, Arabic literature, medieval Judaica, (medieval) Hebrew literature, the history of the Jews in Muslim Spain, the medieval Iberian Peninsula, the medieval literatures of Spain, and contacts between Muslims, Jews and Christians.
Reviews
'...insightful...'
Choice, 1994.
'Cette étude est importante pour les hébraïsants...mais aussi pour les arabisants...De plus, un tel travail est pertinent pour les catholiques romains...Cette ouvrage s'inscrit donc en bonne place dans l'étude de la littérature andalouse hébraïqye,'
Richard Ayoun, REEH, 1996.
'The chief value of this book will be to increase the accessibility of Golden Age Hebrew poetry to Arabists and general literary scholars, and to serve as a work of reference for students of either body of literature who are interested to find out what the other literature has to say on a given subject.'
Raymond P. Scheindlin.
Choice, 1994.
'Cette étude est importante pour les hébraïsants...mais aussi pour les arabisants...De plus, un tel travail est pertinent pour les catholiques romains...Cette ouvrage s'inscrit donc en bonne place dans l'étude de la littérature andalouse hébraïqye,'
Richard Ayoun, REEH, 1996.
'The chief value of this book will be to increase the accessibility of Golden Age Hebrew poetry to Arabists and general literary scholars, and to serve as a work of reference for students of either body of literature who are interested to find out what the other literature has to say on a given subject.'
Raymond P. Scheindlin.
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