The evolution of al-Ḥarizi's Taḥkemoni / / by Michael Rand.

• Author: Rand, Michael
• Place / Publishing House: Leiden ;, Boston : : Brill,, [2018]
• Year of Publication: 2018
• Language: English
• Series: Études sur le judaïsme médiéval 76.
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (156 pages).

Michael Rand's The Evolution of al-Ḥarizi's Taḥkemoni investigates the stages whereby the text of al-Ḥarizi's maqama collection as we currently know it, on the basis of manuscripts (and the editio princeps ), came into being during al-Ḥarizi's travels in the East over the course of approximately the last ten years of his life. The discussion is based on a close examination of the textual evidence, the investigation of a number of relevant literary motifs, and a comparison to al-Ḥarizi's model, the Maqāmāt of al-Ḥarīrī. The book includes a catalogue of fragments of the Taḥkemoni in the Genizah and Firkovitch IIA collections, and some previously unpublished material that can reasonably be claimed to belong to a heretofore unattested version of the Taḥkemoni .

Table of Contents

Front Matter -- Copyright Page -- Dedication -- Preface -- Introduction -- Al Ḥarizi's Travels in the East-Biographical and Geographical Background -- Al-Ḥarizi the Spanish Pilgrim -- The Fictional Landscape of the Taḥkemoni -- The Recensions and Dedications of the Taḥkemoni -- The Taḥkemoni as a Collection -- The Coherence of the Taḥkemoni -- Conclusion -- An Annotated List of Manuscripts and Fragments of the Taḥkemoni in the Genizah Collections and in the Firkovitch IIA Collection -- An Anthology of Texts from the Taḥkemoni in Ms. Cambridge Add.377.5 -- Plates -- Back Matter -- Bibliography.