Contents

Acknowledgements

List of Abbreviations

Transliteration of Arabic

Transliteration of Hebrew

Introduction

Chapter One History of Research

1.1 Nineteenth-Century Scholarship

1.2 Twentieth-Century Scholarship

1.3 The Edition by Leon Weinberger

Chapter Two Manuscript Tradition

2.1 List of Available Manuscripts

2.2 Manuscript NLR Evr. I 802

2.3 Criteria for Editing and Selecting Poems

Chapter Three History of Fāṭimid and Ayyūbid Egypt

3.1 Islamic Urban Civilisation

3.2 The Jewish Community

3.3 The Karaite Community

Chapter Four Moses ben Abraham Dar'ī

4.1 Biographical Data

4.2 Social and Professional Life

Chapter Five Poetics and Poetry

5.1 The Arabic Poetical Tradition

5.2 Hebrew Poetry in Muslim Spain

5.3 Hebrew Poetry in the Muslim East

5.4 Is Karaite Poetry Distinct from Rabbanite Poetry?

Chapter Six Secular Genres

6.1 Religiosity and Secularity

6.2 Praise Poetry

6.3 Poetry of Complaint

6.4 Wisdom Poetry

6.5 Wine and Love Poetry

6.6 Homonymic Poetry

Chapter Seven Motifs and Themes

7.1 Praise of Old Age

7.2 Time and World

7.3 Wealth and Poverty

7.4 Hypocrisy of Friends

7.5 Women and Marriage

7.6 Body and Soul

7.7 Memento Mori

7.8 Love and Rivalry

Chapter Eight Language and Style

8.1 Hebrew Lexicon

8.2 Grammar and Syntax

8.3 Style and Rhetoric

8.4 Poetical Form and Prosody

8.5 Quotations

8.6 Judaeo-Arabic Language and Style

Chapter Nine The Significance of Moses Dar'ī

Chapter Ten Edition: Poems Nos. 1–152, on the Basis of MS NLR Evr. I 802, with Commentary

Alphabetical List of Poems Nos. 1–152

Alphabetical List of Biblical Names

Variant Readings

Bibliography

Index of Names and Subjects

Plate Section