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Three mystics walk into a tavern : a once and future meeting of Rumi, Meister Eckhart, and Moses de León in medieval Venice / James C. Harrington and Sidney G. Hall III.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Harrington, James C., author.
- Hall, Sidney G., III, author.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Moses ben Shem Tov, de Leon, 1250-1305.
- Moses ben Shem Tov.
- Jalāl al-Dīn Rūmī, Maulana, 1207-1273.
- Jalāl al-Dīn Rūmī.
- Eckhart, Meister, -1327.
- Eckhart.
- Mysticism.
- Mystics.
- Religion--Philosophy.
- Religion.
- Religion--History--13th century.
- Religion--History--14th century.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (168 p.)
- Edition:
- 1st ed.
- Place of Publication:
- Lanham, Maryland : Hamilton Books, 2015.
- Language Note:
- English
- Summary:
- In Three Mystics Walk into a Tavern, Jalal ad-Din Rumi, Moses de León, and Meister Eckhart--three of the greatest mystics of all time--meet in Venice for an imaginary night-long conversation that will inspire everyday individuals of the twenty-first century to find their own spirituality and realize that everyone can be a mystic.
- Contents:
- Intro
- Contents
- Foreword
- Introductory Comments-A Tavern?
- Notes
- 1 What This Book Is-And Is Not-About
- Everyone Can Be a Mystic
- Restless Hearts
- 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
- 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
- 5 Jalal ad-Din Rumi
- Teachings
- Major Works
- Order of Whirling Dervishes
- Legacy
- 6 Meister Eckhart
- Influence
- Works and Teachings
- Modern Spirituality
- 7 Moses de León
- The Zohar
- The Zohar and Kabbalah
- 8 The Conversation Continues, about the Divine
- 9 More Tea, Wine, and Conversation
- 10 Still More Çay and Conversation
- 11 Women and the Feminine
- 12 As Dawn Approaches
- 13 They Conclude-the Underground River and Expanding the Circle
- Select Bibliography
- Index.
- Notes:
- Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Description based on print version record.
- Description based on publisher supplied metadata and other sources.
- ISBN:
- 0-7618-6543-8
- OCLC:
- 903899779
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