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1 online resource (ix, 156 pages) |
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text file |
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Includes bibliographical references (pages 147-149) and index. |
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Foreword; Introductory Comments-A Tavern?; Notes; 1 What This Book Is-And Is Not-About; Everyone Can Be a Mystic; Restless Hearts; Notes; 2 They Meet at Taverna degli Alighieri in Venice; 3 Mysticism; Trying to Define the Indefinable; Mysticism Back on Stage; One River, Many Wells; Historical Notes; Characteristics; Dangers of Mysticism; Notes; 4 The 13th and Early 14th Centuries as Backdrop; Christianity in Europe; The Mongols; Culture, Education, and Law; Political Events; 13th-Century Inventions; Concluding Comments; Notes; 5 Jalal ad-Din Rumi; Teachings; Major Works. |
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Order of Whirling DervishesLegacy; Notes; 6 Meister Eckhart; Influence; Works and Teachings; Modern Spirituality; Notes; 7 Moses de Le©đn; The Zohar; The Zohar and Kabbalah; Concluding Comments; Notes; 8 The Conversation Continues, about the Divine; Notes; 9 More Tea, Wine, and Conversation; Notes; 10 Still More Çay and Conversation; Notes; 11 Women and the Feminine; Notes; 12 As Dawn Approaches; Notes; 13 They Conclude-the Underground River and Expanding the Circle; Notes; Select Bibliography; Index. |
| Summary |
In <span style=""font-style:italic;"">Three Mystics Walk into a Tavern, Jalal ad-Din Rumi, Moses de Le©đn, and Meister Eckhart- three of the greatest mystics of all time-meet for an imaginary conversation that will inspire individuals of the twenty-first century to find their own spirituality and realize that everyone can be a mystic. |
| Local Note |
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| Subject |
Jalāl al-Dīn Rūmī, Maulana, 1207-1273.
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Jalāl al-Dīn Rūmī, Maulana, 1207-1273. |
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Eckhart, Meister, -1327.
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Eckhart, Meister, -1327. |
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Moses ben Shem Tov, de Leon, 1250-1305.
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Moses ben Shem Tov, de Leon, 1250-1305. |
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Mysticism.
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Mysticism. |
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Mystics.
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Mystics. |
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Religion -- Philosophy.
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Religion -- Philosophy. |
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Imaginary conversations.
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mysticism. |
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mystics. |
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Imaginary conversations. |
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RELIGION -- Comparative Religion. |
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History.
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| Added Author |
Hall, Sidney G., 1958- author.
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| Other Form: |
Print version: Three mystics walk into a tavern Lanham, Maryland : Hamilton Books, an imprint of Rowman & Littlefield, [2015] 978076186542 (pbk : alk. paper) (DLC) 2014959059 |
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9780761865438 ebook |
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978076186542 paperback : alkaline paper |
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076186542X paperback : alkaline paper |
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9780761865438 e-book |
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0761865438 e-book |
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9780761865421 |
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0761865438 ebook |
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