THE ZOHAR IN MOSLEM AND CHRISTIAN SPAIN
Book Details + Condition: George Routledge and Sons, Ltd (London). First Edition, 1932. Inscribed and signed by Ida Bension, the wife of the author. 256 pages. Introduction by Sir Denison Ross. "The Zohar" was compiled and composed in Spain in the 13th century, and exerted a powerful influence on Jewish life in medieval ghettos. Dr. Ariel Benison was the first scholar to deal with the influence on Jewish mysticism of certain characteristics which underlie so much of the literature produced in Spain by Christians and Muslims. Contents include: The Spanish Mystics; Further Similarities in the Work of the Spanish Mystics of the Three Faiths (Jewish, Christian, Moslem); Revelations Concerning Paradise and Hell; and much more. Tight binding; rubbed corners and edges; shelf wear to boards; discoloration to cloth board edges; wear to spine edges, with some fraying; fading to spine; slight warping to boards, with old stain to bottom of front board and corresponding first blank page - and same to rear board and corresponding page; interior is free of markings, save author's wife's inscription.
