Mystical Union in Judaism, Christianity, and Islam: An Ecumenical Dialogue [Paperback]

Moshe Idel (Editor), Bernard McGinn (Editor)

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ISBN-10: 0826408826 | ISBN-13: 978-0826408822 | Publication Date: July 1996

"Represents the only updated book on comparative mysticism, written by some of the most influential scholars of mysticism in the world". -- Incognita

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• Paperback: 252 pages
• Publisher: Continuum International Publishing Group (July 1996)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0826408826
• ISBN-13: 978-0826408822
• Product Dimensions: 9.2 x 6 x 0.9 inches
• Shipping Weight: 13.6 ounces
• Average Customer Review: 4.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (1 customer review)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #1,782,558 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

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4.0 out of 5 stars Mystical Bargain, September 22, 2002

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It is a bit unseemly to speak of a bargain when it comes to a book on mysticism but this one really is. The original price was [amount]; I can only assume there was an over-printing. The five writers included in this book are some of the most insightful modern thinkers on the subject. Michael Sells treatment of mysticism in Islam makes for rich reflection. He seems to have a noetic understanding of the subject: "The encountering of the secret is not so much a resolution of mystery (transcending duality) through a comprehensive knowledge as it is a deepening of mystery through unresolvable paradox."

Daniel Merkur makes an excellent discussion of the "unitive experience." He takes a cross cultural approach that gives the reader a fair estimate of what the actual experience of mystical union is for the mystic in practical terms: "Unitive visions are clearly variant forms of unitive ideas in which the ideas have undergone symboliztion into pictorial form, much as ideas do during the dreams of natural sleep.

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