Bossong
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Completed research project
| Title / Titel | Romance, Arabic, and Hebrew poetry in the Spain of the three religions | ||
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| Summary / Zusammenfassung | In medieval Spain, Arabic, Hebrew, and Romance poetry were interrelated. The Romance kharjas are the oldest known poems in an Ibero- Romance language. They occur as final verses in Hebrew and Arabic strophic compositions (muwashshahas) written in Muslim Spain between 1050 and 1250. Their language is the archaic dialect of Southern Spain known as Mozarabic. This project has two aims. On the one hand, a completely new critical edition of the Hebrew kharjas within their respective muwashshahas will be established, based on the palaeographic analysis of all existing manuscripts (mostly from the Geniza). On the other hand, this whole body of poetry will receive a new interpretation, with special emphasis on its intertextual relations. The most important poet is Yehuda ha-Levi (1075 - ca. 1140), which is generally considered as the greatest classic of post-biblical Hebrew literature, and which is at the same time the first Spanish poet of known personal identity. His plurilingual poetry is situated at the crossway of Biblical influences, the classical and contemporary Arabic lyrics, and the earliest manifestations of poetry in an Ibero-Romance language. It is characterised by a high degree of artistic sophistication and of intertextual complexity. Other poets whose works are considered in relation with this project include Ibn Quzmân, renowned for his poetry in dialectal Andalusian Arabic mingled with Romance words and sentences; and the intertextual relations between the great Spanish mystics Ibn Arabî and San Juan de la Cruz. The texts are interpreted in the framework of a detailed literary and linguistic analysis. A poetic translation into German will address to a broader audience. | ||
| Publications / Publikationen | „Sechs kharjas, oder: Stationen femininer Erotik in Al-Andalus“. In: Manfred Tietz (ed.), Die spanische Lyrik von den Anfängen bis 1870. Frankfurt/ Main: Vervuert Verlag 1997, 41 - 57.„Sprache, Mystik, Intertextualität bei Ibn ‘Arabî und San Juan de la Cruz“, in: Katharina Maier-Troxler & Costantino Maeder (eds.), Fictio poetica. Studi italiani e ispanici in onore di Georges Güntert. Firenze: Franco Cesati 1998, 141 - 167.„El cambio de código árabo-románico en las khara∆jât e Ibn Quzmân“. In: Temimi, Abdeljelil (ed.), Hommage à l’École d’Études Aljamiado (dédié au fondateur Álvaro Galmés de Fuentes), Zaghouan: Fondation Temimi pour la Recherche Scientifique et l’Information 2003, 129 – 149. | ||
| Keywords / Suchbegriffe | Al-Andalus, Medieval Spain, poetry, Arabic, Hebrew, Mozarabic, kharja, muwashshaha, Geniza, Yehuda ha-Levi, Ibn Quzmân, Ibn Arabî, San Juan de la Cruz, intertextuality | ||
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| Funding source(s) / Unterstützt durch |
SNF (Personen- und Projektförderung) From 1997 - 2002: supported by the SNF; project title: "Die romanischen Kharjas im Kontext der hebräischen und arabischen Dichtung von Al-Andalus" |
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| Duration of Project / Projektdauer | Apr 1997 to Dec 2005 |