You might ask why I am including a book on Sephardic Jews in a bookstore that focuses on Sufi literature. While this book covers the complete history of Sephardic Jews on the Iberian Peninsula continuing on after their expulsion by the Catholic Monarchs and persecution by the inquisition, up to the present day, I am… Read More Jews of Spain: A History of the Sephardic Experience
I like this book a lot and it has been very useful in my research. This is a scholarly engagement in interfaith dialogue but written in a style that is very readable and therefore accessible to a wide readership. What the female scholars of monotheistic faiths have in common here is their feminist approach to… Read More Daughters of Abraham
Maria Rosa Menocal writes a gripping and colourful story of Al-Andalus (Muslim Spain) in a style that makes it difficult to put down this book. Meticulously researched it nevertheless reads like a good novel. It is not a dry history but a series of vignettes that illustrate the amazing diversity and extraordinary juxtapositions of life… Read More The Ornament of the World: How Muslims, Jews and Christians Created a Culture of Tolerance in Medieval Spain
A Sufi-Jewish Dialogue: Philosophy and Mysticism in Bahya ibn Paquda’s Duties of the Heart by Diana Lobel Duties of the Heart was written by Bahya Ibn Paquda in eleventh century Al-Andalus (Islamic Spain). In this study Diana Lobel examines the original Arabic to discover the close alignment of Paquda’s work with the Sufi mystic path.… Read More Read About the Dialogue Between Jews and Sufis
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