This research provides a guide to understanding, preparing, and performing Arnold Schoenberg’s last completed opus, “De Profundis” (Psalm 130) Op. 50B, within the context of the Hebrew chant that inspired it and Schoenberg’s other religious works, sketches, archival corresponden…
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This dissertation will make a contribution to debates on mysticism and religious experiences by exploring the neuroscientific and medical studies performed on the Medjugorje visionaries and analyze what hermeneutical contributions these studies make to our understanding of extra…
Over the last several decades, the practices and philosophy of Sufi mystics from former Soviet Republics Kazakhstan and Uzbekistan have spread into Russian society, and from there to much of Eastern Europe. Through the efforts of individuals such as Mirzakarim Sanakulovich Norbe…
This dissertation seeks to fill a major lacuna in the scholarship on Abraham Joshua Heschel (1907–1972), one of the most influential Jewish thinkers in modern times. Although academic study of Heschel's work has burgeoned in recent years, nearly four decades after his death we s…
Most of Dante's literary criticism has traditionally been rooted in the cultural fabric of Christian and Classical scholarship. Not enough has been said about non-Christian influences on Dante and more specifically, about his interaction with the deep and significant presence of…
In this dissertation, I develop the notion of the presence and influence of an Iberian Sufi mystical process in the poetry of Clara Janés and Joaquim Pessoa. I also further define these poets' role in the development of postmodernism in the Iberian Peninsula. In Chapter I, I giv…
This dissertation addresses the reciprocal relations between rational speculation and devotional piety in the life and thought of Rabbi Moses Cordoeiro (= Cordovero - RaMaK, Safed, 1522-1570), arguably the most important mystical thinker in Jewish history. By featuring numerous …
Bursalı Mehmed Tahir hem Osmanlı Devleti’nin son dönemlerine hem de Türkiye Cumhuriyeti’nin ilk yıllarına şahitlik etmiş önemli bir müellif ve mutasavvıftır. Askeri okullarda eğitim hayatını devam ettirirken tasavvufa olan meyli artmış ve mürşid arayışına başlamıştır. İlk olarak…
Mehmed Şemseddin Ulusoy’a ait H. 1349/M. 1931 yılında te’lif edilmiş müellif nüshası Misbâr-ı Şemsî adlı eser, çeviriyazı ile günümüz alfabesine aktarılmıştır. Eserin incelemesi yapılırken müellifin yaşadığı dönem, müellifin hayatı, edebî yönü ve eserleri -müellifin kendi beyanl…
Hayyim Vital was a Jewish mystic (kabbalist) who lived in Safed, Israel in the sixteenth-century. This dissertation examines the implications of Vital's concept of “the oral and the written.” Informed by research in the field of linguistic anthropology, I look at how Vital's vie…
This dissertation is a reinvestigation into the works and intellectual development of the first known Kabbalist in thirteenth century Castile, R. Jacob ben Jacob HaKohen. Special emphasis has been given in this study to what is now understood to be the second period of his thoug…
This study provides the first intertextual reading of St. John of the Cross' spatial poetic against Plato's chora (jóora), the famous cosmogonic space/receptacle of the Timaeus. Plato conceives the symbolic chora as a containing receptacle, the space of all becoming, which recei…
The term "in Christ" is widely recognized within the Christian Church as a signature term of the Apostle Paul. But while the term is recognized as fundamental to his theology, occurring 180 times specifically and 300 times generally, functional usage is minimal. However, when th…
Ibn Sina has been the object of many contemporary studies, all of which have attempted to examine various angles of the possible connection between Ibn Sina and mysticism. These studies, however, have not fully explored Ibn Sina's understanding of mysticism; he is generally seen…
In my work I am intrigued and inspired by mysticism, which is to believe in the unity of Allah, signifying that all creation emerges from one source and eventually goes back to it. It is an all-encompassing unity and nothing exists without it. This belief influences both the con…
This thesis contends that sufism, tasawwuf, Islamic mysticism, on the shoulders of al-asrar, the Mysteries (or secrets) allowed Islam to become a viable force in West Africa. As sufis, Islamic strivers often conveyed the words and ideas of Muslim belief through a peaceful means …
My dissertation is a study of the importance of female impurity for medieval Jewish spirituality. It is striking that of the three major religions in medieval Europe, Judaism, Christianity, and Islam, Judaism alone cannot boast a single female mystic. I argue that the notion of …
Mysticism can be examined from various viewpoints: historical, theological, sociological, and psychological. This study primarily examines the philosophical status and implications of mysticism, an issue investigated many times, particularly over the last four decades. Walter T.…
This study examines the emergence, survival, and triumph of Hasidism—a popular Jewish mystical movement based on the teachings of R. Israel Ba'al Shem Tov (“The Besht”, c.1700–1760)—in late eighteenth and early nineteenth-century Central Poland, the territory which would come to…