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ID131860
Title ProperPolitics and poetry in the works of Shalom Shabaz?
LanguageENG
AuthorTobi, Yosef
Publication2014.
Summary / Abstract (Note)The poetry of Yemen from its inception, at least as it has been known to us since the twelfth century, was liturgical poetry, connected to religious worship. A revolutionary change occurred with the verse of Yosef ben Israel (late sixteenth and early seventeenth centuries), and even more so with that of his younger relative, Shalom Shabaz? (1619-80s). This happened as a result of the severe deterioration in the status of the Yemenite Jews after the rise of the Zayd? dynasty in 1629. The poetry of the Jews of Yemen, in particular that of Shabaz?, became the primary tool for their spiritual expression, and the subject of exile and redemption took on vitality and had concrete political significance in three ways: (a) vivid and vital depictions of the imagined eschatological-messianic reality of the redemption that is about to happen; (b) description of the events themselves, originating from a deep sense that it is necessary to keep a faithful record for the generations to come; (c) expressions of revenge and contempt toward the Zayd? ruling power, which represented the whole of Islam.
`In' analytical NoteIsrael Affairs Vol.20, No.2; April 2014: p.240-255
Journal SourceIsrael Affairs Vol.20, No.2; April 2014: p.240-255
Key WordsJews of Yemen ;  Jewish Poetry ;  Yemen ;  Shalom Shabazi ;  Jews ;  Muslims in Yemen ;  Ethnicity ;  Ethnic Community ;  Muslim World ;  Middle East ;  Revolutionary Change ;  Eschatological-Messianic ;  Religious Worship ;  Revolutionary Change Occurred - RCO


 
 
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