A Comparative Study: Mystical Union in Judaism, Christianity, and Islam’s Mystical Theology with an Emphasis on the Book “Mystical Union in Judaism, Christianity, and Islam: An Ecumenical Dialogue”

If we consider the Abrahamic religions to be a collection of epistemic propositions about the existence and its Originator, the God glory be to Him, and the path to human prosperity, then we have to accept that the mystical theologies of the three religions, Judaism, Christianity and Islam, have read their holy texts by one of the most important hermeneutics in both parts of the propositions epistemology and interpretation of human prosperity. Monism is the dominant aspect of these theologies when they interpret the system of being and union with God is the ultimate goal and goodness when they draw the human way to God. In this regard, theologians in all of these religions take advantage of the teachings of their own tradition – such as Devekut and Hitkalelut in jewish mystical tradition and Fana in Sufism, the Greek philosophies and especially Neoplatonic philosophy. The doctrine of the Perfect Man, maintaining the sanctity of the Shari’a, is one of the other common points. Naturally, in all three religions, the doctrine of mystical unity in a given period of time tends toward extreme union. Evolving Paul’s Unitas Spiritus into Ekhart’s Union of indistinction is an evidence to prove this issue. In all three, the ultimate perfection does not usually accept the escapist interpretations. The study, by focusing on the articles of the three most important scholars in the field of mystical theology of the three religions of Judaism, Christianity and Islam, Moshe Idel, Bernard McGinn, and Michael Sells, uncovers the similarities and differences between these three religions in the doctrine of mystical union.