The Texture of the Divine explores the central role of the imagination in the shared symbolic worlds of medieval Islam and Judaism. Aaron W. Hughes looks closely at three interrelated texts known as the Hayy ibn Yaqzan cycle (dating roughly from 1000--1200 CE) to reveal the interconnections not only between Muslims and Jews, but also between philosophy, mysticism, and literature. Each of the texts is an initiatory tale, recounting a journey through the ascending layers of the universe. These narratives culminate in the imaginative apprehension of God, in which the traveler gazes into the divine presence. The tales are beautiful and poetic literary works as well as probing philosophical treatises on how the individual can know the unknowable. In this groundbreaking work, Hughes reveals the literary, initiatory, ritualistic, and mystical dimensions of medieval Neoplatonism. The Texture of the Divine also includes the first complete English translation of Abraham Ibn Ezra's Hay ben Meqitz.
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Aaron W. Hughes is Associate Professor of History and the Gordon and Gretchen Gross Professor in the Institute of Jewish Thought and Heritage at the University at Buffalo, SUNY. In addition to numerous articles and book chapters, he is author of The Texture of the Divine: Imagination in Medieval Islamic and Jewish Thought (Indiana University Press, 2004), Jewish Philosophy A
Elliot R. Wolfson is Abraham Lieberman Professor of Hebrew and Judaic Studies at New York University. He is author of Through a Speculum That Shines: Vision and Imagination in Medieval Jewish Mysticism; Language, Eros, Being: Kabbalistic Hermeneutics and Poetic Imagination; Venturing Beyond: Law and Morality in Kabbalistic Mysticism; Alef, Mem, Tau: Kabbalistic Musings on Time, Truth, and Death; and Open Secret: Post-Messianic Messianism and the Mystical Revision of Menahem Mendel Schneerson.
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THE QUARREL BETWEEN PHILOSOPHY AND LITERATURE, INTELLECT AND imagination, according to Socrates in Book 10 of the Republic, is ancient and virulent. Read the first page Key Phrases - Statistically Improbable Phrases (SIPs): (learn more)
initiatory tale, noetic development, term kol, ritual paradigm, unnamed protagonist, hermeneutical act, corporeal extension, apprehend the divine, oriental wisdom, imaginative apprehension, ontological hierarchy, medieval aesthetics, philosophical stories, sensual world, ontological gap Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
Hayy ibn Yagzán, Ijayy ibn Yagzán, Hayy ibn Yaqzan, Active Intellect, Ijayy ibn Yaqzan, Ezra's Hay ben Meqitz, Golden Calf, Aristotle's Poetics, Ijayy ibn Yagzan, Middle Ages, First Cause, First Principle, Judah Halevi New!
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