Selected Poems of Solomon Ibn GabirolPrinceton University Press, 30.06.2016 - 344 Seiten Poet, philosopher, and sensitive misanthrope, a spectacular fly in the ointment of the refined eleventh-century Andalusian-Jewish elite, Solomon Ibn Gabirol comes down to us as one of the most complicated intellectual figures in the history of post-biblical Judaism. Unlike his worldly predecessor Shmuel HaNagid, the first important poet of the period, Ibn Gabirol was a reclusive, mystically inclined figure whose modern-sounding medieval poems range from sublime descriptions of the heavenly spheres to poisonous jabs at court life and its pretenders. His verse, which demonstrates complete mastery of the classicizing avant-garde poetics of the day, grafted an Arabic aesthetic onto a biblical vocabulary and Jewish setting, taking Hebrew poetry to a level of metaphysical sophistication and devotional power it has not achieved since. |
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... Poetry (Norton, 1998) Grateful acknowledgment is made for permission to reprint the diagram on page 34, Copyright © Raphael Loewe, from Ibn Gabirol, by Raphael Loewe (Peter Halban, 1989). The original appears in the Oxford Arabic ...
... poet of poles and swells and reversals, of splits that propose a completion ... Arabic, Muslim Jewish, his resistance a form of embrace. ABU AYYUB SULAIMAN ... poet. At some point his father moves the family north to Saragossa, and Ibn ...
... poet , perhaps the most vigorous and representative Muslim thinker of the ... poetry was subtle , " says Ibn Ezra , “ like that of the later Muslim poets ... Arabic , redactor of the first standard prayer book , liturgical poet , com ...
... Arabic po- etry's secular genres and quantitative meters into Hebrew in the middle of the tenth century and set off a debate that split the Jewish intellectual community: Dunash was accused of desecrating the holy tongue with his ...
... Arabic literature , where it was based on the Quran and was known as iqtibas , " the lighting of one flame from another . " It implied a source and transfer of energy . Far from constituting a rote application to an otherwise useful but ...
Inhalt
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FROM THE DIWAN OF SOLOMON IBN GABIROL | 39 |
PERSONAL POEMS AND POEMS OF COURT | 43 |
POEMS OF DEVOTION | 109 |
KINGDOMS CROWN | 137 |
Notes | 197 |
Bibliography | 317 |