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A Sufi-Jewish Dialogue - Philosophy and Mysticism in Bahya ibn Paquda's "Duties of the Heart" (Hardcover)
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A Sufi-Jewish Dialogue - Philosophy and Mysticism in Bahya ibn Paquda's "Duties of the Heart" (Hardcover)
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A Sufi-Jewish Dialogue Philosophy and Mysticism in Bahya ibn
Paquda's Duties of the Heart Diana Lobel "It is difficult to
imagine a timelier book that this. . . . Outstanding."--"Speculum"
"An ambitious attempt to fill a long-standing lacuna in the history
of Jewish thought by presenting a synthesis and evaluation of Bahya
in his intellectual context. It draws on over a century of
scholarship, suggests some new sources for Bahya and new readings
of old sources, and offers an interpretation of his
thought."--Charles H. Manekin, University of Maryland "This
manuscript contains a subtle, probing, and rich exposition of the
key issue of devotional self-examination within Jewish and Islamic
mysticism. The author has a superb sense of Arabic, Sufi mystical
psychology, and the extraordinary dialogue (sometimes openly
acknowledged, often left unacknowledged) among Jewish, Islamic,
Christian, and Greek traditions at the time of Ibn
Paquda."--Michael Sells, University of Chicago "Lobel illustrates
the power of philology in the best sense. Her critical ear for the
nuances and history of Arabo- Islamic terminology . . . enables her
to probe the deep structural penetration of Sufi ideas in the work
of Jewish thinkers and seekers. To put it another way, "A
Sufi-Jewish Dialogue" traces the process by which Arabo-Islamic
conceptual frames are imported into Judaism through shared use of
the Arabic language. . . . Lobel is keenly attuned to the
historical dimension of the work and its place in the cultural and
intellectual history of the Jews of al-Andalus and all of
Islam."--"TMR" 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. Diana Lobel is Associate Professor of Religion at
Boston University. She is the author of "Between Mysticism and
Philosophy: Sufi Language of Religious Experience in Judah
Ha-Levi's Kuzari." Jewish Culture and Contexts 2006 376 pages 6 x 9
ISBN 978-0-8122-3953-9 Cloth $59.95s 39.00 ISBN 978-0-8122-0265-6
Ebook $59.95s 39.00 World Rights Religion Short copy: 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.
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