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Shabazi (Tel Aviv)
Shabazi (''Shabbazi, Shabbezi, El-Shibzi'' ( he, שבזי, link=no, ar, الشبزي, link=no) may refer to: * Shalom Shabazi, a 17th-century Jewish poet * Alireza Shapour Shahbazi (1942–2006), an Iranian archeologist and historian * Shabazi Street, a main street in Rosh Haayin, Israel {{disambiguation, surname ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Shalom Shabazi
Rabbi Shalom ben Yosef ben Avigad Shabazi of the family of Mashtā (1619 – c. 1720), also Abba Sholem Shabazi or Saalem al-Shabazi ( he, שלום שבזי; ar, سالم الشبزي), was a Jewish poet who lived in 17th century Yemen. He is now considered the 'Poet of Yemen'. Life and works Shabazi was born in 1619 in the town of Najd Al-Walid. His family's pedigree has been traced back to Zeraḥ, the son of Judah, the son of Jacob who is called Israel. At the death of his father, Yosef Mashta, Shalom moved to the small town of Shabaz, near the city of Ta'izz. Not long thereafter, he again moved and settled in Ta'izz where he built a house of prayer and a ritual bath ( mikveh) outside of the city, beneath Jebel Ṣabir. It was from here that he and his family were expelled, along with most of the Yemenite Jews in 1679. He died in ca. 1720. His father, Yosef ben Abijad ben Khalfun, was also a Rabbi and a poet. Shabazi's extant poetic diwan, comprising some 550 poems, was ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
