Chapter One. History Of Research
Year: 2011

Western scholarship first noted the poetical collection of Moses Darʿī in a catalogue of Karaite manuscripts from the Crimea , published by Abraham Geiger (1810-74) in 1837. The heading to poem no. 29 shows that it was a Hebrew translation of an Arabic original, that to poem no. 101 that it imitates a poem by Judah ha-Levi, and that to poem no. 207 that it was meant to praise a prominent Jew who drowned in the Nile . This chapter aims to restore these omissions in a selective edition of secular