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A Sufi-Jewish Dialogue
2011,2007,2013,2006
Overview
Written in Judeo-Arabic in eleventh-century Muslim Spain but quickly translated into Hebrew, Bahya Ibn Paquda'sDuties of the Heartis 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. InA Sufi-Jewish Dialogue, Diana Lobel explores the full extent to whichDuties of the Heartmarks the flowering of the \"Jewish-Arab symbiosis,\" the interpenetration of Islamic and Jewish civilizations. Lobel reveals Bahya as a maverick who integrates abstract negative theology, devotion to the inner life, and an intimate relationship with a personal God. Bahya emerges from her analysis as a figure so steeped in Islamic traditions that an Arabic reader could easily think he was a Muslim, yet the traditional Jewish seeker has always looked to him as a fountainhead of Jewish devotion. Indeed, Bahya represents a genuine bridge between religious cultures. He brings together, as well, a rationalist, philosophical approach and a strain of Sufi mysticism, paving the way for the integration of philosophy and spirituality in the thought of Moses Maimonides.A Sufi-Jewish Dialogueis the first scholarly book in English about a tremendously influential work of medieval Jewish thought and will be of interest to readers working in comparative literature, philosophy, and religious studies, particularly as reflected in the interplay of the civilizations of the Middle East. Readers will discover an extraordinary time when Jewish, Christian, and Islamic thinkers participated in a common spiritual quest, across traditions and cultural boundaries.
Publisher
University of Pennsylvania Press, Inc,University of Pennsylvania Press
Subject
Baya ben Joseph ibn Pauda,-active 11th century-Knowledge and learning
/ Baya ben Joseph ibn Pauda,-active 11th century.-Hidayah il fara'i al-qulub
/ Baḥya ben Joseph ibn Pakūda, 11th cent
/ Baḥya ben Joseph ibn Pakūda, 11th cent. Hidayāh ilā farā’iḍ al-qulūb
/ Baḥya ben Joseph ibn Paḳuda, 11th cent. -- Knowledge -- Sufism
/ Baḥya ben Joseph ibn Paḳuda, 11th cent. Hidāyah ilá farāʾiḍ al-qulūb
/ History
/ Interdisciplinary-Jewish Studies
/ Islam
/ Jewish ethics -- Early works to 1800
/ Judaism
/ Judaism -- Relations -- Islam
/ RELIGION
/ RELIGION / Judaism / History
/ SOCIAL SCIENCE / Jewish Studies
/ Sufism
ISBN
0812239539, 9780812239539, 9780812202656, 0812202651
