Download or read book The Zohar in Moslem and Christian Spain written by Ariel Bension and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2016-07-07 with total page 293 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: ‘The Zohar’ was compiled and composed in Spain in the thirteenth century, and exerted a powerful influence on Jewish life in medieval ghettoes. In this book, first published in 1932, Dr Bension 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 both by Christians and Muslims.