Synopses & Reviews
Synopsis
1. Introduction: The Esoteric and the Mystical, Transfers
and Constructions-Mark Sedgwick and Francesco Piraino
Part I: Premodern Transfers
2. Seekers of Love: The Phenomenology of Emotion in Jewish, Christian, and Sufi Mystical Sources-Andrea Gondos
3. Rabbi Salim Shabazi and Sufism: Synthesis or Juxtaposition?-Mark Wagner
4. "And you should also adjure in Arabic: " Islamic, Christian, and Jewish Formulas in the Solomonic Corpus-Gal Sofer
5. Compelling the Other: Esoteric Exorcism as a Reflection of Jewish-Christian Social Tensions in Premodern German Demonic Ritual Magic-Ildik Glaser-Hille
Part II: Modern Transfers
6. Tlemcen, Algeria: A Would-Be Esoteric Colonial Settlement of the Fin de Si cle -Alexandre Toumarkine
7. Alfarabi as Leo Strauss's Teacher of Platonic Esoteric Writing: Leo Strauss's Rediscovery of Esotericism and its Islamic Origin-Rasoul Namazi
8. Aleister Crowley and Islam-Marco Pasi
9. The Sufi Shaykh and his Patients: Merging Islam, Psychoanalysis, and Western Esotericism-Francesco Piraino
10. Sufism and the Enneagram-Mark Sedgwick
Part III: Constructions
11. "A Remarkable Resemblance: " Comparative Mysticism and the Study of Sufism and Kabbalah-Boaz Huss
12. Heretical Orthodoxy: Eastern and Western Esotericism in Thomas Moore Johnson's "Platonism"-Vadim Putzu
13. Astrology, Letters and Cosmos: Ferid Vokopola's Syncretism-Gianfranco Bria