R. Aharon al-Amani, a rabbinic judge in the community of Alexandria in the 12th Century, has become especially well-known on account of having merited the opportunity to host in his home R. Yehuda ha-Levi, when the latter arrived in Alexandria en route to Palestine . The poetic Diwan of Yehuda ha-Levi contains evidence of an exchange of poems between himself and Aharon al-Amani. However, whereas a number of the poems written by ha-Levi to R. Aharon have come down to us, only small fragments of the secular poems of R. Aharon have survived. On the other hand, the Cairo Genizah has preserved a significant number of his liturgical poems, selihot for the most part, and these are published in the present volume. The poems are accompanied by an apparatus of variant readings and a commentary. In an extensive introduction, the editor discusses the uniqueness of the poems of al-Amani, discovering that despite the prestige enjoyed by Spanish Hebrew poetry and the near-complete acceptance of the Spanish poetic forms, R. Aharon did not internalize the new characteristics that pervade the Spanish selihot, especially the personal characteristics bearing a philosophical stamp; his selihot bear a national character, according to the eastern tradition.