v. 3: Interest in Sufism in the West has increased through the magic of the poetry of Rumi and other Persian mystics. This text studies and celebrates the culture and intellectual life of sixteenth- to eighteenth-century Iran and India, concentrating…
This book represents the first wide-scale presentation and interpretation of pre-kabbalistic, Jewish mysticism. This is the Kekhalot or Merkavah mysticism. The emphasis is on the conceptions of God, the angels and man that the texts provide and that…