mysticism religious philosophy experience

books:

A Sufi-Jewish Dialogue: Philosophy and Mysticism in Bahya ibn Paquda's Duties of the Heart (Jewish Culture ...
Diana Lobel

University of Pennsylvania Press, 2006

"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 ...

Between Mysticism and Philosophy: Sufi Language of Religious Experience in Judah Ha-Levi's Kuzari (S U N Y ...
Diana Lobel

State University of New York Press, 2000

A revealing study of this important medieval Jewish poet and his relation to Islamic thought. Judah Ha-Levi (1075-1141), a medieval Jewish poet, mystic, and sophisticated critic of the rationalistic tradition in Judaism, is the focus of this ground-breaking study. Diana Lobel examines his influential philosophical dialogue, Sefer ha-Kuzari, written in Arabic and later translated into Hebrew, which broke religious and philosophical convention ...