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Judah Halevi and his circle of Hebrew poets in Granada
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ISBN: 9004147098 9789004147096 9781429427159 1429427159 9781433704123 1433704129 1280868686 9786610868681 9789047408376 Year: 2005 Publisher: Leiden ; Boston : Brill/Styx,

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This study focuses on the earliest period of creativity in the life of Judah Halevi (1075-1141), the greatest Hebrew poet since biblical times, and offers a portrait of a unique circle of Hebrew poets centering on the Muslim city-kingdom of Granada.


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Isaac ibn Khalfun
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ISBN: 9789004496569 9789004124158 Year: 2003 Publisher: Leiden;Boston BRILL

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Isaac ibn Khalfun : a wandering Hebrew poet of the eleventh century
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ISBN: 9004124152 9004496564 Year: 2003 Publisher: Leiden Boston Brill ; Styx

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Books Like Sapphires : From the Library of Congress Judaica Collection.
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ISBN: 9781684582983 1684582989 Year: 2024 Publisher: Chicago : Brandeis University Press,

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God's Chosen People : Judah Halevi's Kuzari and theShīʻī Imām doctrine
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ISBN: 9782503543963 2503543960 Year: 2014 Volume: 7 Publisher: Turnhout: Brepols,

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The first ever monographic study on the theological encounter of Judaism with Shīʻism through an explorartion of Judah Halevi’s reliance on basic themes of Shīʻism in the presentation of Judaism in his classical treatise, The Kuzari. The systematic formulation of the status of the People of Israel as the Chosen People of God stands at the heart of Judah Halevi’s famous theological and polemical treatise – the Kuzari. The idea of the Chosen People is an ancient one and is deeply rooted in Judaism. Through a wide-ranging textual and phenomenological investigation, this book highlights the novel and systematic presentation of the Chosen People in the Kuzari and shows how Judah Halevi draws, in a creative manner, on terms, concepts, and themes borrowed from the Shī‘ī doctrine of the Imām as presented in Shī‘ī literature. This book presents a historical perspective for understanding the basis of Judah Halevi’s attraction to Shī‘ī theology, with its unique category of God’s Chosen. The polemical argument over the issue of the legitimate successor to leadership in early Islam, as well as the debate around the legitimate successor-group in medieval interreligious disputes, emerges as the historical background for the seemingly surprising link between the Shī‘ī Imām doctrine and the idea of the Chosen People in Judah Halevi’s thought. This link on the one hand portrays Halevi as a bold, original thinker and, on the other, portrays the Shī‘ī Imām doctrine as exceedingly fruitful and reaching beyond the bounds of Islam.

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