The Convergence of Judaism and Islam. Religious, Scientific, and Cultural Dimensions

Table 13.1. The Poets of the Mishaf

Period Time Place Prominent Poets Poems in

the Mishaf

̔Abbasid

Baghdad/

Muslim-Spain

10th

century

Baghdad and

Cordoba

Dunash Ben Labrat (915–70) 1

Muslim Spain 11th to

15th

centuries

Spain Shlomoh Ibn Gabirol (1020–57) 8

Yishaq Ben Yehudah Ibn Ghayyath

(1030–89)

1

Yehudah Halevi (1075–1141) 5

Avraham Ibn ̔Ezra (1089–1164)^6

Maimonides (1138–1204)a 1

Provence Yishaq Ben Yehudah Hasniri (13th

century)

1

Yosef Ben Hanan Ben Natan Ezobi

(13th century)

1

Zrahyah Halevi (13th century) 1

Ottoman

Empire

16th

century

Constantinople Shlomoh Ben Mazal Tov (16th

century)

2

Safed El ̔azar Ben Mosheh Azkari

(1533–1600)

1

Avraham Maimin (16th century) 1

Palestineb Israel Ben Mosheh Najarah

(1555–1625)

81

Libya Shim‘on Lavi (d. 1545) 1

Tunis Fardji Shawat (16th century) 2

17th and

18th

centuries

Morocco Mosheh Ben Aharon Adhan (17th

and 18th centuries)

1

David Ben Aharon Hasin (1727–92) 2

Mosheh Ashkar Hakohen (18th

century)

1

Baghdadc 18th

through

20th

centuries

Baghdad 23 Poetsd (18th and 19th centuries) 52

Halabe Yosef Ben Eliyah al-Hakham

(1835–1909)

49

Halab Egypt Yishaq ̔Antabi (18th and 19th

centuries)

1

Halab Refael ̔Antabi (19th century) 1

Halab Mordekhay ̔Abadi (19th century) 6

Halab, Jerusa-

lem–New York

Avraham ̔Antabi (20th century)

Yishaq ̔Abadi (20th century)

1
1
Total PLSs 228
Notes:
a. Not certain.
b. Also Adrianople in Turkey, Damascus, Safed, and Gaza.
c. Under the Ottomans until 1918.
d. The most prominent poets are Mosheh Halevi (1835–1909) with seven songs; Rabi ̔Abdalla Ben Rabi Khther
Hnin (d. 1859) and Saleh Masliah (1773–1885) with six songs each; and ̔Ezra Ben Rabi Eliahu Sofer (19th century)
and Sason ben Rabbi Mordekhay (1747–1830) with four songs each.
e. Also known as Aleppo.