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The Texture of the Divine Imagination in Medieval Islamic and Jewish Thought
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The Texture of the Divine Imagination in Medieval Islamic and Jewish Thought Hardcover - 2003

by Aaron W. Hughes


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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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THE QUARREL BETWEEN PHILOSOPHY AND LITERATURE, INTELLECT AND imagination, according to Socrates in Book 10 of the Republic, is ancient and virulent.

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  • Title The Texture of the Divine Imagination in Medieval Islamic and Jewish Thought
  • Author Aaron W. Hughes
  • Binding Hardcover
  • Edition First Edition; F
  • Pages 288
  • Publisher Indiana University Press, -
  • Date December 2003
  • ISBN 9780253343536
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