Judaism and Islam One God One Music

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"In Judaism and Islam One God One Music, Merav Rosenfeld-Hadad offers the first substantial study of the history and nature of the Jewish Paraliturgical Song, which developed in the Arabo-Islamic civilization between the tenth and the twentieth centuries. Commonly portrayed as clashing cultures, Judaism and Islam appear here as complementary and enriching religio-cultural sources for the Paraliturgical Song's texts and music, poets and musicians, as well as the worshippers. Relying chiefly on the Babylonian-Jewish written sources of the genre, Rosenfeld-Hadad gives a fascinating historical account of one thousand years of the rich and vibrant cultural and religious life of Middle Eastern Judaism that endured in Arabo-Islamic settings. She convincingly proves that the Jewish Paraliturgical Song, like its people, reflects a harmonious hybridization of Jewish and Arabo-Islamic aesthetics and ideas"--

subjects: Jewish poetry, history and criticism,  Religious poetry, history and criticism,  Synagogue music,  Jews, iraq,  Arabs,  Islam, relations, judaism,  Judaism, relations, islam,  Piyutim,  History and criticism,  Hebrew Jewish religious poetry,  Jews,  Songs and music,  Influence,  Islam,  Relations,  Judaism,  Interfaith relations,  Pijut,  Judentum,  Synagoge,  Kirchengesang