Judeo-Hispanic poetry of the Golden Age of Spain is the evidence of an unusual hybridization process and intricate environmental circumstances, both intellectual and physical. Like Arab-Hispanic poetry, it grew briefly on foreign soil before being uprooted. The progenitors of Judeo-Hispanic poetry most probably were the oral poetry traditions of nomadic Arab tribes who roamed the middle east before the coming of Islam, the Islamic poets of the Abbasid dynasty in Baghdad, oral traditions of the Israelites, Biblical poetry, possibly the songs of the Iberian peninsula, and the philosophy of the Kalam. continued: poetry-reason-and-revelation
