Spanish Hebrew Poetry and the Arabic Literary Tradition: Arabic Themes in Hebrew Andalusian Poetry Book

	Preface
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1	Introduction	1
1.1	Purpose of this study	1
1.2	Genre, Theme and Motif: definitions	9
2	The Poetic Climate in Andalusia in the eleventh century	12
2.1	Has Andalusian poetry special characteristics vis-a-vis Oriental poetry?	12
2.2	The question of originality in Arabic and Hebrew poetry	22
3	The Jews in Muslim Spain	41
3.1	Short history of the Jews in Spain up to the eleventh century	41
3.2	The beginnings of Hebrew Andalusian literature	48
3.3	The four poets: Samuel han-Nagid	52
3.4	The four poets: Solomon ibn Gabirol	56
3.5	The four poets: Moses ibn Ezra	59
3.6	The four poets: Yehudah hal-Lewi	62
3.7	After the four poets	65
4	The Arabic poem: developments, genres, subdivisions	72
4.1	Development of function and contents of the Arabic poem	72
4.2	Stylistic developments: "ornate style' or badi"	76
4.3	Genres and themes in Arabic poetic works	79
4.4	Genres and themes in Hebrew Andalusian poetry	84
4.5	Subdivision into genres within Arabic poems	91
4.6	Subdivision into genres within Hebrew Andalusian poems	97
5	Wine poetry	105
5.1	In Arabic poetry: general introduction	105
5.2	The Introductory formulas of the Wine Poems	107
5.3	The time of drinking: Morning, Night, Spring	110
5.4	The place of drinking: Garden, Palace or Tavern	114
5.5	The Partakers in the Drinking Feast: the Drinking Companions	118
5.6	The pourer of the wine	120
5.7	Musicians, Singers and Dancers	125
5.8	Descriptions of Wine and Wine Cup	129
6	Love poetry	144
6.1	General survey	144
6.2	The weeping of the remnants of the encampment	154
6.3	The seeing of the image of beloved in a vision	162
6.4	Greyness and being too old for love	167
6.5	The leanness of the body caused by the pangs of love	168
6.6	The beloved is dwelling in the heart of the lover	170
6.7	The description of the wounding eyes of the beloved	173
6.8	The contrast between the black hair of the beloved and her/his splendid face	176
6.9	Cheeks like roses with hairlocks as watchmen	178
6.10	The boy's cheeks with juvenile down	179
7	Nature poetry	181
7.1	General survey	181
7.2	Descriptions of the garden as a woman	187
7.3	Wind and river as transmitters of greetings	194
7.4	The dove and other birds	197
7.5	A black-white contrast: the raven and the dove	201
7.6	Description of the heavens, rains, nights, stars, etc	203
8	Description of war	217
8.1	Historical note about the Arabic genre	217
8.2	The immediate cause of the war	221
8.3	Introductory passages of War poems	222
8.4	Description of warfare	223
8.5	Description of the army on the march	224
8.6	Description of weaponry	227
8.7	Description of blood and wounds	228
8.8	Warriors as lions, not dulled by court life	229
8.9	The enemies, their peoples, leaders and strongholds	230
8.10	Death, Fate, Time, God	233
8.11	The description of the defeat of the enemy	234
8.12	Laudatory passages	241
9	Elegiac poetry	244
9.1	Historical Survey of the Arabic and Hebrew marthiyah or ritho	244
9.2	Sadness; participation of the universe in the grief	251
9.3	Motifs of Fate, Time and Consolation	259
9.4	The praising of the deceased	271
9.5	Speaking to the deceased; the benediction of rain on the grave	279
10	Description of poetry	287
10.1	Survey of the motifs in Arabic poetry	287
10.2	Poetry description in Hebrew Andalusian poetry	295
11	Conclusions	311
	Bibliography	346
	Concordance of Samuel han-Nagid's poems	362
	Index	367