Creator Bio
Joseph Ibn Ḥasdai
Mid-11th Century
We know almost nothing about Joseph Ibn Ḥasdai other than that he lived in Saragossa, in northern al-Andalus (Muslim Spain), and composed poems that were much admired, only one of which is extant.
Content by Joseph Ibn Ḥasdai
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Does the handsome gazelle
Does the handsome gazelle have strength and might and power to wrap himself in a mantle of darkness, like a cloak—and to pasture the nighttime stars, and wander the wilderness, the lair of dread and…