A Sufi-Jewish Dialogue
Subtitle: Philosophy and Mysticism in Bahya ibn Paquda's Duties of the Heart (Jewish Culture and Contexts)
Publisher: University of Pennsylvania Press
Published: November 2006
Language: eng
Format: Hardcover
Number of pages: 368
ISBN-13: 9780812239539
Subjects: Judaism - Theology; Jewish ethics; Religion; Religion - World Religions; Sufism; Judaism - History; Relations; Comparative Religion; Islam - Sufi; Judaism - General; Religion / Judaism / History; Islam; Early works to 1800; Judaism
Description: "Written in Judeo-Arabic in eleventh-century Muslim Spain but quickly translated into Hebrew, Bahya Ibn Paquda's Duties of the Heart is a profound guidebook of Jewish spirituality that has enjoyed tremendous popularity and influence to the present day. Readers who know the book primarily in its Hebrew version have likely lost sight of the work's original Arabic context and its immersion in Islamic mystical literature. In A Sufi-Jewish Dialogue, Diana Lobel explores the full extent to which Duties of the Heart marks the flowering of the "Jewish-Arab symbiosis," the interpenetration of Islamic and Jewish civilizations."--Jacket.