[Andalusi Studies] Lecture announcement: Yitzhak Y. Melamed, The Hasidim as Latter-Day Sufis

[Lucas Oro Hershtein]

*Jewish–Islamic Resonances Lecture Series*

We warmly invite you to our next session:

*Speaker:* Yitzhak Y. Melamed (Charlotte Bloomberg Chair in Philosophy,
Johns Hopkins University)

*Title:* *The Hasidim as Latter-Day Sufis*

*Abstract:*
This lecture traces the Ḥasidic reception of the concluding chapters of
Maimonides’ *Guide of the Perplexed*. It shows how Ḥasidic masters
expressed particular enthusiasm for these Sufi-infused chapters and
developed distinctive practices of prayer inspired by their teaching on
*devekut* (cleaving to God). The lecture also examines recent Ḥasidic
scholarship that regards Islamic Sufis as preserving the original
devotional practices of the biblical prophets.

*Date and time:* 10 December 2025, 12:00 (CET)

*Location:* Sala Julián Rivera (1C), CCHS–CSIC, Madrid

To receive the Zoom link, please email: *l.oro.hershtein at gmail.com
<l.oro.hershtein at gmail.com>*

Videos of the first three lectures in the Jewish–Islamic Resonances Lecture
Series (Ehud Krinis, Yoav Meyrav, and Giuseppe Veltri) are available on our
website.

The Jewish–Islamic Resonances Lecture Series is organised by Lucas Oro
Hershtein as part of the Marie Skłodowska-Curie project “Kabbalah,
Philosophy and Power in the 14th–15th-century Iberian Peninsula” (Horizon
Europe, grant agreement No. 101147087), funded by the European Commission.

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