Since Georges Vajda's classic study, La Théologie ascétique de Baḣya ibn Paqūda, appeared in 1947, very few scholars have devoted book-length works to the thought of Baḣya. Diana Lobel's A Sufi-Jewish Dialogue represents the first widely available to English-reading audiences, and this would be enough to make it a remarkable contribution. But it is the breadth and depth of Lobel's exploration...