Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Reading the divine: a user's guide to the initiatory tale
  • Reading between the lines: text as encounter with the divine
  • Polishing a dirty mirror: the philosophic imagination
  • The initiation of the philosopher: ritual poetics and the quest for meaning
  • "God is beautiful and loves beauty": the role of aesthetics in medieval Islamic and Jewish philosophy
  • Appendix: Ḥay ben Meqitz: an initiatory tale by Abraham ibn Ezra.