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Ross Brann is an American religion historian,currently the Milton R. Konvitz Professor of Judeo-Islamic Studies at Cornell University. [1] [2]
A kharja or kharjah,is the final refrain of a muwashshah,a lyric genre of al-Andalus written in Arabic or Andalusi Romance ("Mozárabic").
Judah Halevi was a Sephardic Jewish poet,physician and philosopher. He was born in Al-Andalus,either in Toledo or Tudela,in 1075. He is thought to have died in 1141,in either Jerusalem,at that point the Crusader Kingdom of Jerusalem,or in Alexandria,Egypt.
Al-Andalus was the Muslim-ruled area of the Iberian Peninsula. The name describes the different Muslim states that controlled these territories at various times between 711 and 1492. At its greatest geographical extent,it occupied most of the peninsula as well as Septimania under Umayyad rule. These boundaries changed constantly through a series of conquests Western historiography has traditionally characterized as the Reconquista,eventually shrinking to the south and finally to the Emirate of Granada.
The golden age of Jewish culture in Spain was a Muslim ruled era of Spain,with the state name of Al-Andalus,lasting 800 years,whose state lasted from 711 to 1492 A.D. This coincides with the Islamic Golden Age within Muslim ruled territories,while Christian Europe experienced the Middle Ages.
Annemarie Schimmel was an influential German Orientalist and scholar who wrote extensively on Islam,especially Sufism. She was a professor at Harvard University from 1967 to 1992.
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Dunash ha-Levi ben Labrat was a medieval Jewish commentator,poet,and grammarian of the Golden age of Jewish culture in Spain. He is known for his philological commentary,Teshuvot Dunash,and for his liturgical poems D'ror Yiqra and D'vai Haser.
Arabic poetry is one of the earliest forms of Arabic literature. Pre-Islamic Arabic poetry contains the bulk of the oldest poetic material in Arabic,but Old Arabic inscriptions reveal the art of poetry existed in Arabic writing in material as early as the 1st century BCE,with oral poetry likely being much older still.
Shmuel ibn Naghrillah,mainly known as Samuel the Prince and Isma’il ibn Naghrilla,was a medieval Sephardic Jewish Talmudic scholar,grammarian,philologist,soldier,merchant,politician,and an influential poet who lived in Iberia at the time of the Moorish rule. He held the position of Prime Minister of the Taifa of Granada and served as the battlefield commander of the Granadan army,making him arguably the most politically influential Jew in Islamic Spain.
Islamic poetry is a form of spoken word written &recited by Muslims. Islamic poetry,and notably Sufi poetry,has been written in many languages including Urdu and Turkish.
Ammiel Alcalay is an American poet,scholar,critic,translator,and prose stylist. Born and raised in Boston,he is a first-generation American,son of Sephardic Jews from Serbia. His work often examines how poetry and politics affect the way we see ourselves and the way Americans think about the Middle East,with attention to methods of cultural recovery in the United States,the Middle East and Europe.
The Synagogue of El Tránsito,also known as the Synagogue of Samuel ha-Levi or Halevi,is a former Jewish congregation and synagogue,located at on Calle Samuel Levi,in the historic old city of Toledo,in the province of Castilla-La Mancha,Spain.
Reuven Snir is an Israeli Jewish academic,Professor of Arabic language and literature at the University of Haifa,Dean of Humanities,and a translator of poetry between Arabic,Hebrew,and English. He is the winner of the Tchernichovsky Prize for translation (2014).
Joseph Yahalom is a professor of Hebrew literature at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem. Since 1983,he has been a member of the Academy of the Hebrew Language.
Chana Bloch was an American poet,translator,and scholar. She was a professor emerita of English at Mills College in Oakland,California.
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The Massacre of 1391,also known as the pogroms of 1391,refers to a murderous wave of mass violence committed against the Jews of Spain by the Catholic populace in the kingdoms of Castile and Aragon,both in present-day Spain,in the year 1391,during the regency period between the reigns of John I of Castile and his successor,Henry III of Castile. It was one of the most lethal outbreaks of violence against Jews in medieval European history. Anti-Jewish violence similar to Russian pogroms then continued throughout the "Reconquista",culminating in the 1492 expulsion of the Jews from Spain. The first wave in 1391,however,marked the extreme of such violence.
Joseph (Yossi)Chetrit is Emeritus Professor of the French language and literature department and the Hebrew language department at the University of Haifa,former head of the Centre for the Study of Jewish Culture in Spain and Muslim Countries,and founder of the Tsfon-Maarav Troupe.
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