 | A Sufi-Jewish Dialogue: Philosophy and Mysticism in Bahya ibn Paquda''s @quot;Duties of the Heart@quot; Subjects: Baḥya ben Joseph ibn Pakūda 11th cent. Hidayāh ilā farā’iḍ al-qulūb; Jewish ethics -- Early works to 1800; Baḥya ben Joseph ibn Pakūda 11th cent -- Knowledge -- Sufism; Judaism -- Relations -- Islam; Sufism; 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. |
