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A 13th century Cabbalistic text; first appearing in Spain, its author claimed that it was the work of an ancient writer, from the school of Rabbi Shim'on of Yohai. Current scholarship suggests that Zohar may actually be the work of a 13th century…

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…