 | The Zohar in Moslem and Christian Spain Subjects: Area Studies; Humanities; Middle East Studies; History; Middle East Culture; Middle East Economics; Middle East History; Middle East Politics; Middle East Society; Political Islam; European History; World/ International History; Medieval History 400-1500; Early Modern History 1500-1750; Religious History; 'The Zohar' was compiled and composed in Spain in the thirteenth century, and exerted a powerful influence on Jewish life in medieval ghettoes. In this book, first published in 1932, Dr Bension was the first scholar to deal with the influence on Jewish mysticism of certain characteristics which underlie so much of the literature produced in Spain both by Christians and Muslims. |
