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Author Harrington, James C., 1946- author.

Title 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
Published Lanham, Maryland : Hamilton Books, an imprint of Rowman and Littlefield, [2015]
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Description 1 online resource (ix, 156 pages)
Contents 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
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
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (pages 147-149) and index
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Subject Jalāl al-Dīn Rūmī, Maulana, 1207-1273.
Eckhart, Meister, -1327
Moses ben Shem Tov, de Leon, 1250-1305.
SUBJECT Eckhart, Meister, -1327 fast
Jalāl al-Dīn Rūmī, Maulana, 1207-1273 fast
Moses ben Shem Tov, de Leon, 1250-1305 fast
Subject Mysticism.
Mystics.
Religion -- Philosophy.
Imaginary conversations.
mysticism.
mystics.
RELIGION -- Comparative Religion.
Imaginary conversations
Mysticism
Mystics
Religion -- Philosophy
Genre/Form History
Form Electronic book
Author Hall, Sidney G., 1958- author.
LC no. 2021676247
ISBN 9780761865438
0761865438