The Story of the Crooked Preacher by Jacob ben ElÊ¿azar

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The story translated hereby is the eighth in a collection of ten stories (titled âThe book of fablesâ) by Jacob Ben ElÊ¿azar, a late thirteenth-century Jewish author from Toledo. His stories take the form of the Andalusi variety of the maqÄma, allowing for more liberty of theme, narrative experimentalism and openness to diverse influencesâArabic as well as Romance. The storyâs narrator, LemuÊ¾el, joins a huge crowd fascinated by a humongous beard belonging to a (Moslem?) preacher named Akhbor. His unruly beard, as well as his long pious sermon, are exaggeratedly represented. After being generously paid by the crowd, the seemingly-poor preacher returns to the luxurious mansion he owns. Suspicious LemuÊ¾el secretly follows him home. Peering from an ambush, he sees Akhbor merrily and lavishly partying with four young maidservants. As the four leave, a black woman enters to have fierce sex with Akhbor. LemuÊ¾el, being disgusted with the scene, calls back the four maidservants who smuttily insult Akhbor, pluck his beard off, and finally beat him up to death. Days later, in spring, the same four ex-maidservants stroll like ladies in blooming orchards. Four young gentlemen make awkward advances to them, upon which the ladies teach them a lesson in the art of Courtly Love. The story culminates in the marriage of the four couples. The epilogue, clearly detached from the storyâs main body, introduces a novel romantic theme: Romance Courtly Love replacing the carnal eroticism of al-Andalus. The storyâs hybrid cultural scene, may well epitomize the transition underwent by thirteenth-century Iberian Jewry from al-Andalus to Christian Spain.

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'His Pen and Ink Are a Powerful Mirror'

Andalusi, Judaeo-Arabic, and Other Near Eastern Studies in Honor of Ross Brann

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