{"product_id":"beguiling-guidance-9789004733794","title":"Beguiling Guidance","description":"The only Hebrew picaresque \u003ci\u003emaqāma\u003c\/i\u003e from Yemen, \u003ci\u003eSefer hamusar\u003c\/i\u003e captivates its readers with trickster tales of wandering and adventure while offering moral guidance and a spiritual ascent via kabbalistic study. In \u003ci\u003eBeguiling Guidance\u003c\/i\u003e, Adena Tanenbaum explores these tensions, along with the literary, social-historical, philosophical, and kabbalistic aspects of \u003ci\u003eSefer hamusar\u003c\/i\u003e, and situates the work in its broader 16th-century framework. Applying a fresh reading, she analyzes Alḍāhirī’s \u003ci\u003emaqāma\u003c\/i\u003e as a rich repository of intellectual history; treats his travel narratives as composites of fiction and fact; and uncovers the cultural assumptions and self-definitions underlying his representations of Muslims, which she shows to be far more variegated and nuanced than previously acknowledged. \u003ci\u003eBeguiling Guidance\u003c\/i\u003e should appeal to readers interested in transregional cultural exchange and the diffusion of texts; pre-modern fiction and travel writing; and Muslim-Jewish power relations in the late medieval\/early modern Middle East. It also serves as an introduction to the vibrant culture of a Jewish community that traced its presence in South Arabia back to antiquity.","brand":"Adena Tanenbaum","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":48268364775675,"sku":"9789004733794","price":173.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0779\/3917\/9771\/files\/9789004733794.jpg?v=1772491487","url":"https:\/\/indiepubs.com\/products\/beguiling-guidance-9789004733794","provider":"IndiePubs","version":"1.0","type":"link"}