Sufism and Jewish Mysticism | A Brief History of Inter-Religious Infatuation

A Journey across centuries and continents, tracing the relationship between Muslims and Jews through their shared mystical practices, beliefs and texts.  Exploring the moments in history of fruitful interaction between Sufism (Islamic Mysticism) and Jewish Mysticism.  

02:52 - 11th Century Spain | Bahya ibn Pakuda: Duties of the Heart 

05:26 - 13th Century Egypt | Abraham Maimonides: Egyptian Pietism  

10:22 - 16th Century Israel | The Kabbalah of Safed  

11:17 - 18th Century Eastern Europe | Hasidism  

If there are any Sufis or students of Sufism out there who are keen to collab and come on the channel, please please please let me know.  Please do Follow, Like, Subscribe if you dig this kinda content. #ProjectUnity 

Thank you to youtube.com/bimbam for the animations.   

Sources and Further Reading: “Judaism and Sufism”, Paul Fenton, in The Cambridge Companion to Medieval Jewish Philosophy A Sufi-Jewish Dialogue, Philosophy and Mysticism in Bahya ibn Paquda's "Duties of the Heart", Diana Lobel Between Mysticism and Philosophy: Sufi Language of Religious Experience in Judah Ha-Levi's Kuzari, Diana Lobel   Jewish Mystical Leaders of the 13th Century, Paul Fenton Judaism, Sufism, and the Pietists of Medieval Egypt A Study of Abraham Maimonides and His Times, Elisha Russ-Fishbane  Shalom/Salaam: A Story of a Mystical Fraternity, Thomas Block Sufism and Jewish-Muslim Relations, Yafia Katherine Randall Treatise of the Pool, Obadyah Maimonides, translated and introduced by Paul Fenton  “How small is your [conception of] God, if it can't include the beauty of the Muslim, the Jew and the Christian.”