List Books » A Sufi-Jewish Dialogue: Philosophy and Mysticism in Bahya ibn Paquda's Duties of the Heart
Authors: Diana Lobel
ISBN-13: 9780812239539, ISBN-10: 0812239539
Format: Hardcover
Publisher: University of Pennsylvania Press, Inc.
Date Published: December 2006
Edition: (Non-applicable)
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.
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.