What others said about Arabic From the author's own Arabic
On Hebrew literature under Islamic rule:
“Yet Israelite literature in the Middle Ages revived greatly, rose strongly and took a new direction under Islamic rule in al-Andalus, Egypt and Iraq. In those times the Jews began imitating the Arabs in poetry: they borrowed the Arabic metres and cast them in a Hebrew mould and an Arabic measure, then went on to compose short pieces and odes, until Hebrew was enriched by this new kind of poetry … So too new styles appeared in Hebrew philosophical and legal prose, which had been influenced by Arabic styles, and the Jews took from it many Arabic terms and words.”
The Arabic original
Source
Written in Arabic. First edition (1929), p. 98.
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