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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
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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.
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Jun 30, 2023 · Kitab al Khazari (Kuzari) (1905) by Judah Halevi, translated by Hartwig Hirschfeld. related portals: Judaism. sister projects: Wikipedia article, Commons category, Wikidata item. 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 ...
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Judah Halevi’s Book of the Kuzariis a defense of Judaism that has enjoyed an almost continuous transmission since its composition in the twelfth century. By surveying the activities of readers, commentators, copyists, and printers for more than 700 years, Adam Shear examines the ways that the Kuzari became a classic of Jewish thought.
The. publication of Prof. Michael Schwarz z”l’s new modern Hebrew translation of. Rabbi Judah Halevi’s Judaeo-Arabic Book of Kuzari provides a good. opportunity to discuss previous versions of this seminal book of Jewish thought. and to evaluate the advantages that Prof. Schwarz’s translation has over other. renditions.
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 ...
