Selected Poems of Shmuel HaNagid
HaNagid, Shmuel / Cole, Peter![Selected Poems of Shmuel HaNagid](https://support.digitalhusky.com/media/annotations/sorted/946/9465222/CHSBZCOP039465222.jpg)
The first major poet of the Hebrew literary renaissance of Moslem Spain, Shmuel Ben Yosef Ha-Levi HaNagid (993-1056 c.e.) was also the Prime Minister of the Muslim state of Granada, battlefield commander of the non-Jewish Granadan army, and one of the leading religious figures in a medieval Jewish world that stretched from Andalusia to Baghdad. Peter Cole's groundbreaking versions of HaNagid's poems capture the poet's combination of secular an...