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Book Synopsis'His Pen and Ink are a Powerful Mirror' is a volume of collected essays in honor of Ross Brann, written by his students and friends on the occasion of his 70th birthday. The essays engage with a diverse range of Andalusi and Mediterranean literature, art, and history. Each essay begins from the organic hybridity of Andalusi literary and cultural history as its point of departure, introduce new texts, ideas, and objects into the disciplinary conversation or radically reassesses well-known ones, and represent the theoretical, methodological, and material impacts Brann has had and continues to have on the study of the literature and culture of Jews, Christians, and Muslims in al-Andalus. Contributors include: Ali Humayn Akhtar, Esperanza Alfonso, Peter Cole, Jonathan Decter, Elisabeth Hollender, Uriah Kfir, S.J. Pearce, F.E. Peters, Arturo Prats, Cynthia Robinson, Tova Rosen, Aurora Salvatierra, Raymond P. Scheindlin, Jessica Streit, David Torollo.
Table of ContentsAcknowledgments Notes on Contributors Note on Transliterations and Translations Bibliography of Ross Brann’s Publications Introduction 1 Legislating Borders: Naturalized Genoese and Sefardi Merchants in the Ottoman Mediterranean Ali H. Akhtar 2 The Headings of the Psalms: A Case Study in Medieval Exegesis and Translation Esperanza Alfonso 3 An Iberian Braid for Ross Peter Cole 4 Panegyric as Pedagogy: Moses ibn Ezra’s Didactic Poem on the “Beautiful Elements of Poetry” (maḥāsin al-shiʿr) in the Context of Classical Arabic Poetics Jonathan Decter 5 Sefarad in Tzarfat: Sefardi and Sefardi-Style Piyyutim in MS Bernkastel-Kues 313 Elisabeth Hollender 6 Solomon vs. Solomon: A Fabrication of a Hebrew Polemic Uriah Kfir 7 “His (Jewish) Nation … and His (Muslim) King”: Modern Nationalism Articulated through Medieval Andalusi Poetry S.J. Pearce 8 Inscribing the Good News: The Run-Up to Mark F.E. Peters 9 Fifteenth-Century Hebrew Literature: Some Reflections on Textual Transmission for a Modern Edition Arturo Prats Oliván 10 Desert and Palace: Poetics of Place in Naṣrid Poems to the Prophet Cynthia Robinson 11 The Story of the Crude Preacher by Jacob ben Elʿazar Tova Rosen 12 Ohev Nashim and Minḥat Yehudah Soneʾ ha-Nashim: New Fragments of a Debate Aurora Salvatierra 13 Ḥever the Pious: Some Aspects of Religion in the Taḥkemoni by Judah al-Ḥarīzī Raymond P. Scheindlin 14 Well-Ordered Growth: Meanings and Aesthetics of the Almohad Mosque of Seville Jessica Streit 15 A Translation of Q Luqmān/31 Shawkat M. Toorawa 16 The Story of the Female Jewish Wine Merchant: An Example of Cultural Translation in Medieval Hebrew Literature David Torollo Index
