Selected Poems of Shmuel HaNagid

The first major poet of the Hebrew literary renaissance of Moslem Spain, Shmuel Ben Yosef Ha-Levi HaNagid (993-1056 ce) was also the Prime Minister of the Muslim state of Granada, and one of the leading religious figures in a medieval Jewish world that stretched from Andalusia to Baghdad. This book features different versions of HaNagid's poems.