Presenting an updated survey of the debates concerning Andalusian strophic poetry and their "kharajas", this volume focuses upon the texts themselves and their literary implications as testimonies of the multicultural and multilingual society of al-Andalus. Since languages and alphabets of the three major religions have been used, these texts are studied historically, prosodically, thematically and stylistically and are related to the three literary traditions. The book is based upon current editions and and interpretations of of the texts introducing emendations in over a third of its contents.
