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Moses ben Abraham Dar'ī, born in Alexandria into a family of Moroccan Jewish immigrants, lived in Egypt in the middle of the twelfth century. Though he visited Damascus and Jerusalem, he spent most of his professional life as a physician and poet in the Karaite community of Fusṭāṭ-Cairo. This study offers an annotated edition of secular poems taken from the earliest manuscript, NLR Evr. I 802, dated to the fifteenth century. The Hebrew text and Judaeo-Arabic heading of each poem are provided in the original order attested in the manuscript. The introduction to this edition seeks to evaluate Dar'ī’s poetry in the light of the Andalusian-Hebrew poetical tradition and within the context of Hebrew literary activity in the Muslim East.

Table of contents:
Introduction
Chapter 1 History of Research
Chapter 2 Manuscript Tradition
Chapter 3 History of Fāṭimid and Ayyūbid Egypt
Chapter 4 Moses ben Abraham Dar'ī
Chapter 5 Poetics and Poetry
Chapter 6 Secular Genres
Chapter 7 Motifs and Themes
Chapter 8 Language and Style
Chapter 9 Conclusion: The Significance of Moses Dar'ī
Chapter 10 Edition: Poems nos. 1-152, on the basis of MS NLR Evr. I 802, with commentary