Power in the Portrayal
Subtitle: Representations of Jews and Muslims in Eleventh- and Twelfth-Century Islamic Spain.
Publisher: Princeton University Press
Published: August 5, 2002
Language: eng
Format: Hardcover
Number of pages: 208
ISBN-13: 9780691001876
Subjects: European history: c 500 to c 1500; History of religion; Islam; Judaism; Literary studies: classical, early & medieval; Multicultural studies; c 1000 CE to c 1500; History; History - General History; Arabic; History: World; Europe - Spain & Portugal; Islam - History; Judaism - History; European History; History / Medieval; Jewish Studies; Medieval; 750-1258; Andalusia; Andalusia (Spain); Arabic literature; Ethnic relations; History and criticism; Jews; Spain
First sentence: According to the literary historian and critic Moses ibn 'Ezra' (c. 1055-after 1138) and later chroniclers of Andalusi-Jewish tradition, Abraham ibn Daud (b.c. 1110) and Sa'adia ibn Danan (fifteenth century), there was no greater figure among the Jews of eleventh-century Iberia than Samuel the Nagid (993-1055 or 1056).