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Peter Cole. The Dream of the Poem: Hebrew Poetry from Muslim and Christian Spain 950–1492. Princeton, N.J.: Princeton University Press, 2007. xx + 548 pages. Paper US$19.95 ISBN 078-0-691-12195-6, 0-691-012185-8.

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  09 March 2016

Arie Schippers*
Affiliation:
University of Amsterdam

Abstract

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Copyright © Middle East Studies Association of North America 2009

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End Notes

1 See on this topic Carlos del Valle Rodriguez’s article “Miscellanea de la Al-Andalus hebraica,” which is sub-headed “Poetisas hebreas de al-Andalus,” in which he speaks about the Arabic Jewish poetess Qasmuna bint Ismail, and the wife of Dunash and the daughter of Juda ha-Levi; see Iberiajudaica I (2009), pp. 199224.Google Scholar

2 Yahalom, Joseph, Yehuda Halevi: Poetry and Pilgrimage (Jerusalem: Magness, 2009)Google Scholar, and Scheindlin, Raymond P., The Song of the Distant Dove. Judah Halevi’s Pilgrimage (Oxford University Press, 2008)Google Scholar.

3 For a rhymed translation, see Loewe, Raphael, Ibn Gabirol (London: Peter Halban, 1989, p. 120 ff.)Google Scholar

4 Cf. Schippers, Arie, “Ibn Zabara’s Book of Delight (Barcelona, 1170) and the Transmission of Wisdom From East to West,” in Frankfurter Judaistische Beiträge, Heft 26 (1999), pp. 149161, especially p. 160.Google Scholar

5 See Sezgin, Fuat, Geschichte des Arabischen Schrifttums [GAS], II [Poesie] (Leiden: Brill, 1975), p. 573.Google Scholar