Mystics of the Book: Themes, Topics and Topologies

by Robert A. Herrera

Mystics of the Book is a collection of studies by prominent scholars on different aspects of Jewish, Christian, and Islamic mysticism. Included are studies on major writers such as Meister Eckhart, Ibn al-'Arabi, and Judah the Pious. Seminal texts such as the Sefer Yetzirah, Von Abegescheidenheit, and al-Futuhat al-Makkiva are discussed as are general trends, particular modes, symbols, metaphors, and historical and ideological...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0820420077
• ISBN13: 9780820420073
• Release Date: June 1993
• Publisher: Peter Lang Gmbh, Internationaler Verlag Der W
• Length: 415 Pages