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Journal of Language Culture and Religion

ISSN 2689-8160

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From Andalusia to Shanghai: Ariel Bension’s Cross-Cultural Mysticism and Cultural-Political Creativity

Journal of Language Culture and Religion October 13, 2026 Alberto Bardi

This article examines Ariel Bension’s reinterpretation of Jewish mysticism as a resource for modern Sephardic cultural-political renewal. Focusing on The Zohar in Moslem and Christian Spain , it argues that Bension situated the Zohar within the intercultural world of medieval Andalusia in order to recover the Eastern dimensions of Judaism and challenge Eurocentric accounts of Jewish...