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November 13, 2020

A Muslim Mystic’s 17th-Century Journey to Jerusalem

The travels of Abd al-Ghani al-Nabulsi.

By the 17th century, the Land of Israel had been revived as a center of Jewish intellectual life, and was home to small if vibrant Jewish communities. But much of what we know about this era, writes Samuel Thrope, comes from the travelogue of the Sufi scholar and holy man Abd al-Ghani al-Nabulsi, who set out from his home in Damascus for Jerusalem in 1690:

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