Mystics of the Book Themes, Topics, and Typologies

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 turns within a chronological range of nearly fifteen hundred years and a geographical range extending from Spain to Persia and Germany to North Africa.Herrera, Robert A. is the author of 'Mystics of the Book Themes, Topics, and Typologies' with ISBN 9780820420073 and ISBN 0820420077.