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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.

Judah, --- Abū al-Ḥasan, --- Abul-Hassan, --- Galevi, --- Giuda Levita, --- Halevi, Jehuda, --- Halevi, Judah, --- Haleṿi, Yehudah, --- Halevy, Yehuda, --- Halewy, Yehudah, --- Hallevi, Juda, --- Hallevi, Judah, --- Ieguda, Galevi, --- Jehuda, --- Jehudah, Hallevi, --- Leṿi, Yehudah ha-, --- Levita, Giuda, --- Rihal, --- Yehudá, --- Yehuda Halevi, --- Yĕhudah Abū-l-Hasān ben Šĕmuʼel, --- Yehudah, ha-Leṿi, --- Yĕhūdāh, ha-Lēwī, --- Yehudah Halewy, --- Иегуда, --- ריה״ל --- הלוי, יהודה --- הלוי, יהודה, --- יהודה בן שאול, --- יהודה בן שמואל הלוי --- יהודה בן שמואל, --- יהודה, --- יהודה הלוי --- יהודה, הלוי --- יהודה הלוי, --- יהודה --- יהודה, הלוי, --- יהודיה, --- Criticism and interpretation. --- Languages & Literatures --- Middle Eastern Languages & Literatures

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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.

Judah, ha-Levi --- Shi'ah --- Doctrines --- Jews --- Election [Doctrine of ]