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| Title: | On Arabic Literary Models in Medieval Jewish Literature |
| Contributor: | The Pennsylvania State University CiteSeerX Archives |
| Author: | Rina Drory |
| Description: | Abstract Literary contacts are generally assumed to consist of bilateral rela-tions between two adjacent literatures, whereby one is considered to have "in-fluence " over the other. The complexity of the problems encountered in the study of cultural and literary interference is demonstrated here by way of two medieval Jewish literary products which evolved as a direct result of the asso-ciation between Jewish literature and Arabic culture. Moses ibn Ezra's Kitab al-muhadara wa al-mudhakara, written in Judeo-Arabic, and Judah al-Harizi's Hebrew Maqamat were both produced during the final phase of Jewish cul-tural contact with Arabic, in twelfth- and thirteenth-century northern Spain and Provence. Both are famous examples of Jewish works inspired by Arabic models, yet a reexamination of the cultural circumstances of their production reveals that it was not the Arabic-Jewish context that was responsible for their evolution, but rather a third, local yet non-Arabic one, grounded specifically in the relations between the individual authors and the Jewish cultural climate of that time in Christian Spain, in one case, and in the East (Syria, Palestine, and Babylon), in the other. Cul tura l contacts, particularly li terary contacts, a re generally assumed in t radi t ional theories to consist of bilateral relations between two adja-cent l i teratures, whereby one is considered to have "influence " over the other. But very often we find cultural dynamics to be much m o r e complex a n d elaborate, as l i terary contacts and relationships a re often |
| URI: | https://www.amad.org/jspui/handle/123456789/73334 |
| Other Identifier: | http://www.tau.ac.il/tarbut/rina.drory/abodot/RD-1993-LiteraryContacts.pdf http://citeseerx.ist.psu.edu/viewdoc/summary?doi=10.1.1.588.1676 |
| AMAD ID: | 568342 |
| Appears in Collections: | BASE (Bielefeld Academic Search Engine) General history of Europe |
