ABSTRACT
If Uriah seems an unlikely hero to make an appearance as a biblical referent in a secular Hebrew love poem, an even more unlikely scriptural hero appears in an Arabic love poem of roughly the same period. In verses extolling the wondrous nature of a particular male beloved, the Muslim jurist-poet Abū Muḥammad ‘Ali b. Muḥammad b. Sa‘id b. Ḥazm al-Andalusī equates the besotted lover to a mysterious Qur'ānic character named al-Sāmirī.
