Ibn ʿArabi Called by Moslems "the greatest master," Ibn Al-'Arabi was a Sufi born in twelfth-century Spain. The Bezels of Wisdom was written during the author's later years and was...

Rudolph Peters The notion of Jihad ("Holy War") is very much alive in the Islamic world, and plays a prominent political role. In the West, Jihad is often associated with...

Yossi Maimon "Discover the Land of Israel - Volume Two" with Yossi Maimon. As you read the pages of this book, think of yourself on tour with Maimon, who is...

Helen Fein Poses new theories concerning reasons why the genocidal campaign against the Jews started and why it differed greatly from country to country, using the diaries of Nazi victims...

Jehuda Reinharz and Yaacov Shavit This volume offers a fascinating look at the complex relationship between Jews and Europe during the past two hundred years, and how the European Jewish...

Erwin W Lutzer This excellent book is so important. It clearly and powerfully explains what the parallels are between Germany's fall from grace and the beginning of our own fall. -...

Robert T Trotter II and Juan Antonio Chavira The practice of curanderismo, or Mexican American folk medicine, is part of a historically and culturally important health care system deeply rooted...

Robert Chazan One of the unanticipated results of the First Crusade in 1095 was a series of violent assaults on major Jewish communities in the Rhineland. Robert Chazan offers the...

Joshua Golding Kabbalah teaches that the Tetragrammaton, the four lettered Hebrew name of God, serves as a model for the ideal of spiritual living. Each letter of the Name corresponds...

Richard Kieckhefer This textbook deals with magic, both natural and demonic, within the broad context of medieval culture. Covering the years c. 500 to 1500, with a chapter on antiquity,...

Moshe Idel "Moshe Idel increasingly is seen as having achieved the eminence of Gershom Scholem in the study of Jewish mysticism. Ben, his book on the concept of sonship in...

Gedalyah Nigal Story-telling has been an integral part of the hasidic movement from its very beginnings in the eighteenth century to the present day. Stories about the holy hasidic leaders-the...