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DUNASH , the name of two Jewish scholars of the loth See also:

CENTURY (from Lat. centuria, a division of a hundred men)

century. 1. DUNASH See also:

BEN (from Old Eng. bennan, within)

BEN LABRAT, grammarian and poet, belonged to the brilliant circle attracted to See also:

Cordova by IJasdai, and took a large See also:

SHARE (O. Eng. scearu, chiefly in compounds, e.g. land-scearu, a share of land, from sceran to cut; cf. " shear" )

share in promoting the Jewish " See also:

GOLDEN

Golden See also:

AGE (Fr. age, through late Lat. aetaticum, from aetas)

Age " under the See also:

Moors in See also:

ANDALUSIA, or ANDALUCIA

Andalusia. Dunash not only helped in the See also:

FOUNDATION (Lat. fundatio, from fundare, to found)

foundation of a school of scientific See also:

PHILOLOGY

philology, but adapted Arabian metres to See also:

HEBREW

Hebrew See also:

VERSE (from Lat. versus, literally a line or furrow drawn by turning the plough, from vertere, and afterwards signifying an arrangement of syllables into feet)

verse, and thereby gave an impulse to the neo-Hebraic See also:

POETRY

poetry, which reached its highest level in See also:

Spain. 2. DUNASH See also:

IBN

IBN TJ MIM was, like the preceding, a See also:

LEADER, BENJAMIN WILLIAMS (1831– )

leader in the See also:

CRITICAL (in alphabetical order of authors)

critical study of See also:

LANGUAGE (adapted from the Fr. langage, from langue, tongue, Lat. lingua)

language among Arabic-speaking See also:

Jews. See also:

PROFESSOR (the Latin noun formed from the verb profiteri, to declare publicly, to acknowledge, profess)

Professor Bacher says of him: " In the See also:

HISTORY

history of Hebrew philology, Ibn Tamim ranks as one of the first representatives of the systematic comparison of Hebrew and Arabic." The philological researches of the loth century were closely associated with the See also:

SPANISH

Spanish-Moorish culture of the See also:

period. (I.

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