Eric Chaim Kline, Bookseller

Eric Chaim Kline, Bookseller

Judaism and Islam One God One Music: The History of Jewish Paraliturgical Song in the Context of Arabo-Islamic Culture as Revealed in Its Jewish Babylonian Sources

Leiden: Brill, 2020. First edition. Hardcover. Octavo. x, 297, (1)pp. Index, 23 page bibliography and a list of online songs. Text in English with some Hebrew. Decorative brown boards, lettered in white, with purple headband. Some printed music and 2 text photos. A fine, as new copy.

In Judaism and Islam One God One Music, Merav Rosenfeld-Hadad offers the first substantial study of the history and nature of the Jewish Paraliturgical Song, which developed in the Arabo-Islamic civilization between the tenth and the twentieth centuries. Commonly portrayed as clashing cultures, Judaism and Islam appear here as complementary and enriching religio-cultural sources for the Paraliturgical Song’s texts and music, poets and musicians, as well as the worshippers. Relying chiefly on the Babylonian-Jewish written sources of the genre, Rosenfeld-Hadad gives a fascinating historical account of one thousand years of the rich and vibrant cultural and religious life of Middle Eastern Judaism that endured in Arabo-Islamic settings. She convincingly proves that the Jewish Paraliturgical Song, like its people, reflects a harmonious hybridization of Jewish and Arabo-Islamic aesthetics and ideas. (Publisher)

Contents: The 1954 Miṣḥaf as a Holy Book of Paraliturgical Songs -- The 1954 Miṣḥaf as a History Book of Paraliturgical Songs -- The Paraliturgical Practice and Text: Typical Features Emerging from the Written Sources -- The Paraliturgical Melody: Characteristics Emerging from Both the 1906 and the 1954 Mṣāḥif.

Volume 66 in the "Brill Series in Jewish Studies" Fine. Item #52017
ISBN: 9789004412620

Price: $125.00

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