يهود العالم الإسلامي في العصور الوسطى و أدبهم باللغة العربية

Abstract EN

In pre-modern times, an estimated ninety per cent of the Jewish population lived under Muslim hegemony.

Over the centuries, these Jews not only adopted the Arabic language for most forms of spoken and written communication, but also integrated concepts and techniques from their intellectual environment, resulting in one of the most extraordinary periods of literary creativity in all of Jewish history.

Despite its importance, however, Judaeo-Arabic literature has been under-researched until very recently, due to inaccessible sources, disparate scholarly traditions and political antagonism.

This contribution explores the cultural and intellectual embeddedness, as well as the characteristic traits, Arabic literature written by Jews.