{"product_id":"his-pen-and-ink-are-a-powerful-mirror-andalusi-judaeo-arabic-and-other-near-eastern-studies-in-honor-of-ross-brann-9789004369139","title":"'His Pen and Ink Are a Powerful Mirror': Andalusi, Judaeo-Arabic, and Other Near Eastern Studies in Honor of Ross Brann","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e'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.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTable of Contents\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eAcknowledgments  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","brand":"Brill","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":53210752549207,"sku":"9789004369139","price":110.4,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false}],"url":"https:\/\/bookcurl.com\/products\/his-pen-and-ink-are-a-powerful-mirror-andalusi-judaeo-arabic-and-other-near-eastern-studies-in-honor-of-ross-brann-9789004369139","provider":"Book Curl","version":"1.0","type":"link"}