I want to thank professors Montserrat Abumalham, Shalom Goldman and Devin Stewart for reading preliminary versions of this article and giving me their useful advise on the contents and its edition in English. The preparation of this article has been possible thanks to a Fulbright!MEC postdoctoral fellowship. This article is a revision of the paper I gave in the conference on Appropriating and Reappropiating the Past: History and Historiográphy in Islamic and Judaic Traditions (Den ver, 1996), under the title "The Historiography of the Andalusian Poetess Qasmuna bat Isma'il and the Reflection of Jewish Women in Andalusian Sources". ·

Este artículo ofrece, en primer lugar, un panorama general sobre la metodologíautilizada en el estudio de mujeres musulmanas y judías en la España medieval, paracentrarse, finalmente, en el caso de la poetisa hispano-hebrea Qasmuna bat Isma'il.

This article gives a general overview of the various methodological approacheswhich have been employed in the study of Muslim and Jewish women in Medieval Spain.Then discussion will tum to the Spanish J ewish woman poet Qasmuna bat Isma' il.

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