- Additional Authors
- Ibn Ezra, Abraham ben Meïr, 1089-1164.
- Description
- 1 online resource (x, 273 p.)
- Uniform Title
- Texture of the divine (Online)
- Alternative Title
- Texture of the divine (Online)
- Subject
- Note
- Includes the text of an English translation of Abraham ben Meïr Ibn Ezra's Ḥai ben Meḳits.
- Bibliography (note)
- Includes bibliographical references (p. [245]-265) and index.
- Access (note)
- Access restricted to authorized users.
- Contents
- Reading the divine: a user's guide to the initiatory tale -- Reading between the lines: text as encounter with the divine -- Polishing a dirty mirror: the philosophic imagination -- The initiation of the philosopher: ritual poetics and the quest for meaning -- "God is beautiful and loves beauty": the role of aesthetics in medieval Islamic and Jewish philosophy -- Appendix: Ḥay ben Meqitz: an initiatory tale by Abraham ibn Ezra.
- LCCN
- 2003013824
- OCLC
- ssj0000257686
- Author
Hughes, Aaron W., 1968-
- Title
The texture of the divine [electronic resource] : imagination in medieval Islamic and Jewish thought / Aaron W. Hughes.
- Imprint
Bloomington : Indiana University Press, c2004.
- Bibliography
Includes bibliographical references (p. [245]-265) and index.
- Access
Access restricted to authorized users.
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- Added Author
Ibn Ezra, Abraham ben Meïr, 1089-1164. Ḥai ben Meḳits. English.