Includes bibliographical references (pages 117-122) and indexes.
Contents:
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 -- Appendix 1: An Annotated List of Manuscripts and Fragments of the Taḥkemoni in the Genizah Collections and in the Firkovitch IIA Collection -- Appendix 2: An Anthology of Texts from the Taḥkemoni in Ms. Cambridge Add.377.5.
Summary:
"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includes a catalogue of fragments of the Taḥkemoni in the Genizah and Firkovitch IIA collections, and some previously unpublished material that can reasonably be claimed to belong to a heretofore unattested version of the Taḥkemoni."-- Provided by publisher.
Series:
Études sur le judaïsme médiéval ; Tome LXXVI Cambridge Genizah studies ; Volume 9
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