ha-Nagid, Samuel creator author text xx 1996 monographic eng

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xxviii, 236 p. ; The first major poet of the Hebrew literary renaissance of Moslem Spain, Shmuel Ben Yosef Ha-Levi HaNagid (993-1056 C.E.) was also the prime minister of the Moslem state of Granada, battlefield commander of the non-Jewish Granada army, and one of the leading religious figures in a medieval Jewish world that stretched from Andalusia to Baghdad.Peter Cole's groundbreaking versions of HaNagid's poems capture the poet's combination of secular and religious passion, as well as his inspired linking of Hebrew and Arabic poetic practice. translated from the Hebrew by Peter Cole. Samuel, ha-Nagid, 993-1056 -- Translations into English Translations into English Poetry (poetic works by one author) 892.412 COL 9780691011202 0691011206 InACL 261015 20261015150435.0 164529 eng