The texture of the divine
Subtitle: imagination in medieval Islamic and Jewish thought
By: Aaron W. Hughes
Contributors: Ibn Ezra, Abraham ben Meïr, 1092-1167.
Publisher: Indiana University Press
Published: 2004
Place of publication: Bloomington
Language: eng
Number of pages: 273
Subjects: Avicenna, -- 980-1037.; Ibn Ṭufayl, Muḥammad ibn ʻAbd al-Malik, -- d. 1185.; Ibn Ezra, Abraham ben Meïr, -- 1092-1167.; Imagination -- Religious aspects -- Islam; Imagination -- Religious aspects -- Judaism; Image of God -- Comparative studies; Neoplatonism in literature; Ascension of the soul; Philosophy, Medieval
Genres: Comparative studies
Notes: Includes the text of an English translation of Abraham ben Meïr Ibn Ezra's Ḥai ben Meḳits

Includes bibliographical references (p. [245]-265) and index
Table of contents: title: Reading the divine; title: Reading between the lines; title: Polishing a dirty mirror; title: The initiation of the philosopher; title: God is beautiful and loves beauty