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The Kuzari, full title Book of Refutation and Proof on Behalf of the Despised Religion (Arabic: كتاب الحجة والدليل في نصرة الدين الذليل: Kitâb al-ḥujja wa'l-dalîl fi naṣr al-dîn al-dhalîl), also known as the Book of the Khazar (Hebrew: ספר הכוזרי: Sefer ha-Kuzari), is one of the most famous works of the medieval Spanish Jewish philosopher ...
- Joshua Judah Ha-Levi, Hartwig Bloch, Hirschfeld
- 1947
Jun 30, 2023 · Kitab al Khazari (Kuzari) (1905) by Judah Halevi, translated by Hartwig Hirschfeld. →. : . : , , . Commonly called the Kuzari, this book is the most famous work by the medieval Spanish Jewish writer Judah Halevi. The work is divided into five parts, and takes the form of a dialogue between the pagan king of the Khazars and a Jew who had been ...
The Kuzari by Rabbi Judah Halevi. The story of the Khazars would perhaps have been a footnote in Jewish history if not for Rabbi Judah Halevi (c. 1080–1141), who wrote a classic Jewish philosophical work commonly known as The Kuzari (or Al Khazari). The work's full title is “Book of Refutation and Proof on Behalf of the Despised Religion.”
- Yehuda Shurpin
The Kuzari is an influential work written by the medieval Spanish Jewish philosopher and poet Rabbi Yehuda Halevi (c. 1075–1141). Divided into five essays (ma'amarim), it takes the form of a fictional dialogue between the pagan king of the Khazars and a Jew who was invited to instruct him in the tenets of the Jewish religion.
The Kuzari was written by Yehuda Halevi (Spain, 1075 – 1141 CE). Originally written in Arabic, it describes how the king of the Khazars (an Asian tribe that converted to Judaism in the eighth century), in an attempt to determine which is the true religion, invites representatives of each of the three major religions to come and explain his beliefs. The group includes a Muslim imam, a ...
Judah Halevi (also Yehuda Halevi or ha-Levi; Hebrew: יהודה הלוי and Judah ben Shmuel Halevi יהודה בן שמואל הלוי ; Arabic: يهوذا اللاوي, romanized : Yahūḏa al-Lāwī; c. 1075 – 1141) was a Sephardic Jewish poet, physician and philosopher. He was born in Al-Andalus, either in Toledo or Tudela, in ...
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May 21, 2008 · Judah ben Samuel Halevi (c. 1075–1141) was the premier Hebrew poet of his generation in medieval Spain. Over the course of some fifty years, from the end of the 11 th century to the middle of the 12 th, he wrote nearly 800 poems, both secular and religious. However, because this was a time of intensifying religious conflict characterized by ...
