TY  - BOOK
AU  - Lobel,Diana
TI  - A Sufi-Jewish Dialogue: Philosophy and Mysticism in Bahya Ibn Paquda's Duties of the Heart
T2  - Jewish Culture and Contexts Series
SN  - 9780812202656
AV  - BJ1287.B23 -- H4935 2007eb 
U1  - 296.3/6 
PY  - 2007///
CY  - Philadelphia
PB  - University of Pennsylvania Press
KW  - Baya ben Joseph ibn Pauda,-active 11th century.-Hidayah il fara'i al-qulub
KW  - Baya ben Joseph ibn Pauda,-active 11th century-Knowledge and learning
KW  - Sufism
KW  - Jewish ethics-Early works to 1800
KW  - Judaism-Relations-Islam
KW  - Electronic books
N1  - Cover -- Title Page -- Copyright Page -- Dedication Page -- Table of Contents -- Preface -- Introduction: Bahya's Work in Its Judeo-Arabic Context -- 1: Philosophical Mysticism in Eleventh-Century Spain: Bahya and Ibn Gabirol -- 2: On the Lookout: The Exegesis of a Sufi Tale -- 3: Creation -- 4: The One -- 5: Speaking about God: Divine Attributes, Biblical Language, and Biblical Exegesis -- 6: The Contemplation of Creation (I'tibār) -- 7: Wholehearted Devotion (Ikhlās): Purification of Unity(IKhlās al-Tawhid), Purification of Intention in Action (Ikhlās al-'Amal) -- 8: Reason, Law, and the Way of the Spirit -- 9: The Spirituality of the Law -- 10: Awareness, Love, and Reverence (Murāqaba, Mahabba, Hayba/Yir'ah) -- List of Abbreviations -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Index -- Acknowledgments
N2  - 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
UR  - https://ebookcentral.proquest.com/lib/orpp/detail.action?docID=3442078
ER  -