Research Catalog

Title

A Sufi-Jewish dialogue : philosophy and mysticism in Baḥya Ibn Paqūda's Duties of the heart / Diana Lobel.

Author

Lobel, Diana.

Publication

Philadelphia : University of Pennsylvania Press, ©2007.

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Details

Description

xiv, 362 pages; 24 cm.

Summary

"Written in Judeo-Arabic in eleventh-century Muslim Spain but quickly translated into Hebrew, Bahya Ibn Paquda's Duties of the Heart is 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. 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."--Jacket.

Series Statement

Jewish culture and contexts

Uniform Title

Jewish culture and contexts

Alternative Title

Philosophy and mysticism in Baḥya Ibn Paqūda's Duties of the heart

Subject

• Baḥya ben Joseph ibn Paḳuda, active 11th century
• Baḥya ben Joseph ibn Paḳuda, active 11th century > Knowledge and learning
• Baḥya ben Joseph ibn Paḳuda, active 11th century
• Baḥye ben Yosef
• Hidāyah ilá farāʼiḍ al-qulūb (Baḥya ben Joseph ibn Paḳuda)
• Jewish ethics > Early works to 1800
• Judaism > Relations > Islam
• Sufism
• Learning and scholarship
• Interfaith relations
• Islam
• Jewish ethics
• Judaism
• Sufism
• Spiritualität
• Sufismus
• Jüdische Ethik
• Jewish ethics > 11th century

Genre/Form

Early works

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references (p., [323]-343) and index.

Contents

Introduction : Baḥya's work in its Judeo-Arabic context -- Philosophical mysticism in eleventh-century Spain : Baḥya and Ibn Gabirol -- On the lookout : the exegesis of a Sufi tale -- Creation -- The One -- Speaking about God : divine attributes, biblical language, and biblical exegesis -- The contemplation of creation (iʻtibār) -- Wholehearted devotion (ikhlāṣ) : purification of unity (ikhlāṣ al-Tawḥīd), purification of intention in action (ikhlāṣ al-ʻAmal) -- Reason, law and the way of the Spirit -- The spirituality of the law -- Awareness, love, and reverence (murāqaba, maḥabba, hayba/yirʼah).

ISBN

• 0812239539
• 9780812239539

LCCN

• 2006042181
• 9780812239539

OCLC

• ocm70867091
• 70867091
• SCSB-1416621

Owning Institutions

Princeton University Library