ABSTRACT
Such, then, are the broad lines along which the works of the mystics of the three faiths which flourished in the Peninsula are found to bear resemblances to each other. These are the general similarities. Further and more particular similarities may be noted by the student of the period under discussion:
In comparing the doctrine of the Zohar with that of the Spanish Illuministic School of Ibn Massara of Cordoba.
In the style and particularly in the novelty of the methods of his distinguished disciple Ibn Arabi—methods hitherto unknown to Islamic tradition, even as the methods of the Zohar proved novel to Jewish tradition.
In their manner of clothing their ideas in the brilliant, floating garments of poetic imagery.
In the fact that they considered mystical revelation as superior to all other oral religious tradition.
