Jewish poetry from al-Andalus

The golden age of Jewish poetry in Al-Andalus developed in the literary courts of the various taifas. Like its Arabic counterpart, its production diminished in the 12th century under the rule of the Almoravids and Almohads.[1] In the last part of the 10th century, Dunash ben Labrat revolutionized Jewish poetry in Al-Andalus[2] by bringing Arabic meter and monorhyme into Hebrew writing.[3] Jewish poets employed Arabic poetic themes, writing bacchic poetry, garden poetry, and love poetry.[4]

  1. ^ Zwartjes, Otto (1994). La sociedad andalusí y sus tradiciones literarias. Amsterdam: Rodopi. p. 139. ISBN 9789051837407.
  2. ^ "Medieval Hebrew Poetry". Medieval Hebrew Poetry. Retrieved 2020-06-28.
  3. ^ Decter, Jonathan (2005). "Literatures of Medieval Sepharad". In Zion Zohar (ed.). Sephardic and Mizrahi Jewry : from the Golden Age of Spain to modern times (First ed.). New York: New York University Press. p. 78. ISBN 9780814797068.
  4. ^ Decter, Jonathan (2005). "Literatures of Medieval Sepharad". In Zion Zohar (ed.). Sephardic and Mizrahi Jewry : from the Golden Age of Spain to modern times (First ed.). New York: New York University Press. p. 80. ISBN 9780814797068.