But we also knew that they took inspiration in the Middle Ages from some of the great Arab poets” We know that Jews enjoyed poetry and that they wrote lots of it in Hebrew and used it in their prayer services. Photo by Shihabĭr Ben Outhwaite who has been head of the Genizah Research Unit in Cambridge University Library since 2006, added: “Genizah is Jewish studies. Sally Abed from the research department, Trinity college at the Hidden Literature exhibition. “It also confirms the importance of the Cairo Genizah as a rich resource for Arabic literature and Arabic poetry and shows the need for further study of Arabic poetry there. It also shows the shared culture and heritage between Muslim and Jewish people.” “What is most fascinating is to see how the Jewish community of that time was interested in reading and circulating this kind of Arabic literature. Dublin, who has been the driving force behind the project commented: “The fragments on display at the exhibition show how Arabic and Hebrew poetry was written, read, and circulated within the Jewish community thousands of years ago. Ahmed, associate professor in Middle Eastern Studies, Trinity College. Jews and their interest in Arabic literature “The important thing about these manuscripts is that it shows that there was always a dialogue taking place between Jews and Muslims and that they respected each other,” said Mirza Al Sayegh, chairman of the Al Maktoum College of Higher Education, created by the late Sheikh Hamdan bin Rashid Al Maktoum, former Deputy Ruler of Dubai and Minister of Finance. New York University-Abu Dhabi will exhibit the delicately framed manuscripts until March 26, with the possibility of the project returning to Sharjah in the future. Two women check out the remarkable collection of medieval manuscripts discovered at the end the 19th century in a synagogue in Al-Fustat, Old Cairo, at the Hidden Literature exhibition.
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