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PALGRAVE STUDIES IN NEW RELIGIONS AND ALTERNATIVE SPIRITUALITIES Esoteric Transfers and Constructions Judaism, Christianity, and Islam Edited by Mark Sedgwick Francesco Piraino Palgrave Studies in New Religions and Alternative Spiritualities Series Editors James R. Lewis School of Philosophy Wuhan University Wuhan, China Henrik Bogdan University of Gothenburg Gothenburg, Sweden Palgrave Studies in New Religions and Alternative Spiritualities is an interdisciplinary monograph and edited collection series sponsored by the International Society for the Study of New Religions. The series is devoted to research on New Religious Movements. In addition to the usual groups studied under the New Religions label, the series publishes books on such phenomena as the New Age, communal & utopian groups, Spiritualism, New Thought, Holistic Medicine, Western esotericism, Contemporary Paganism, astrology, UFO groups, and new movements within traditional religions. The Society considers submissions from researchers in any discipline. More information about this series at http://www.palgrave.com/gp/series/14608 Mark Sedgwick • Francesco Piraino Editors Esoteric Transfers and Constructions Judaism, Christianity, and Islam Editors Mark Sedgwick Francesco Piraino Arab and Islamic Studies IDEMEC-CNRS Aarhus University Aix-en-Provence, France Aarhus C, Denmark Palgrave Studies in New Religions and Alternative Spiritualities ISBN 978-3-030-61787-5 ISBN 978-3-030-61788-2 (eBook) https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-61788-2 © The Editor(s) (if applicable) and The Author(s), under exclusive licence to Springer Nature Switzerland AG 2021 This work is subject to copyright. 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Neither the publisher nor the authors or the editors give a warranty, expressed or implied, with respect to the material contained herein or for any errors or omissions that may have been made. The publisher remains neutral with regard to jurisdictional claims in published maps and institutional affiliations. Cover illustration: The History Collection / Alamy Stock Photo This Palgrave Macmillan imprint is published by the registered company Springer Nature Switzerland AG. The registered company address is: Gewerbestrasse 11, 6330 Cham, Switzerland N t ote oN raNsliteratioN The transliteration of Arabic follows the practice of the International Journal of Middle East Studies (IJMES), which is itself based on the classic system developed by the Encyclopedia of Islam. Technical terms are fully transliterated, but diacritics (macrons and dots) are not used for proper names and titles of books, though ʿayn and hamza are still marked. When an accepted English spelling exists, that is always used. v a ckNowledgmeNts The editors would like to thank the Fondazione Giorgio Cini for co- organizing the conference held in 2018 at Isola di San Giorgio Maggiore (Venice), at which contributors to this book presented and discussed drafts of many of its chapters. This was the inaugural conference of the European Network for the Study of Islam and Esotericism (ENSIE), a thematic net- work of the European Society for the Study of Western Esotericism (ESSWE), established in 2016 to bridge the gap between the study of Islamic esotericism and mysticism and the study of Western Esotericism. vii c oNteNts 1 Introduction: The Esoteric and the Mystical, Transfers and Constructions 1 Mark Sedgwick and Francesco Piraino Part I Premodern Transfers 19 2 Seekers of Love: The Phenomenology of Emotion in Jewish, Christian, and Sufi Mystical Sources 21 Andrea Gondos 3 Rabbi Salim Shabazi and Sufism: Synthesis or Juxtaposition? 43 Mark Wagner 4 “And You Should Also Adjure in Arabic:” Islamic, Christian, and Jewish Formulas in the Solomonic Corpus 57 Gal Sofer 5 Compelling the Other: Esoteric Exorcism as a Reflection of Jewish–Christian Social Tensions in Premodern German Demonic Ritual Magic 73 Ildikó Glaser-Hille ix x CONTENTS Part II Modern Transfers 95 6 Tlemcen, Algeria: A Would-Be Esoteric Colonial Settlement of the Fin de Siècle 97 Alexandre Toumarkine 7 Alfarabi as Leo Strauss’s Teacher of Platonic Esoteric Writing: Leo Strauss’s Rediscovery of Esotericism and its Islamic Origin 131 Rasoul Namazi 8 Aleister Crowley and Islam 151 Marco Pasi 9 The Sufi Shaykh and His Patients: Merging Islam, Psychoanalysis, and Western Esotericism 195 Francesco Piraino 10 Sufism and the Enneagram 219 Mark Sedgwick Part III Constructions 247 11 “A Remarkable Resemblance:” Comparative Mysticism and the Study of Sufism and Kabbalah 249 Boaz Huss 12 Heretical Orthodoxy: Eastern and Western Esotericism in Thomas Moore Johnson’s “Platonism” 273 Vadim Putzu CONTENTS xi 13 Astrology, Letters, and the Cosmos: Ferid Vokopola’s Syncretism 297 Gianfranco Bria Bibliography 321 Index 341
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