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Por un lado, tenemos un tema en com n que es un intento y un fracaso, delineados en las repetidas aventuras y desventuras amorosas, tanto del Arcipreste como del que se embarca en el as  llamado Credo del Amor, que es el sufismo evolutivo; y, por otro lado, las t cnicas narrativas del autor del \u003cem\u003eLibro\u003c\/em\u003e guardan fuerte semejanza con la de los textos suf es. Desde esta lectura, el \u003cem\u003eLBA \u003c\/em\u003etendr a un sentido altamente metaf rico y un objetivo did ctico, aunque se trata de un didacticismo indirecto y no convencional. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e En primer lugar, este libro ofrece una breve rese a de las principales figuras del sufismo (Al-Ghazzali o \u003cem\u003eAlgazel, \u003c\/em\u003eFariduddin Attar, Najmuddin Kubra, Hakim Sanai, Saadi of Shiraz, Hakim Jami, Hallaj, Suhrawardi, Junaid, Abu Nasr al Farabi, Omar Khayyam y el celebrado Jalaluddin Rumi) as  como el historiador Ibn Kald n. Trata luego de la presencia de sus escuelas en la pen nsula, entre hispano rabes (Ibn Masarra, Ibn Bajja o Avenpace, Ibn Tufayl o Abubacer, Alfarabi o Alfarabius, Al Kindi, Ibn Rush o Averroes e ibn el Arabi); hebreos (Bahya ibn Pakudah, Zadiq de Cordoba, Yehuda Halevi, Solomon ben Gabirol o \u003cem\u003eAvicebron, \u003c\/em\u003eMoses ben Ezra de Granada, \u003cem\u003e \u003c\/em\u003eSamuel ben Tibb n, Simtob ben Falaquera, Abraham Abulafia, Moses ben Maimon o \u003cem\u003eMaim nides\u003c\/em\u003e de C rdoba, o cabalisticos como Mois s de Le n) y cristianos (Fra Anselmo de Turmeda, Raymundo Llul ); de poetas como Santa Teresa de Avila y San Juan de la Cruz, y otros aspectos culturales que podr an haber sido una fuente de inspiraci n para el autor del \u003cem\u003eLibro\u003c\/em\u003e.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eSeguidamente se presenta un cotejo del \u003cem\u003eLibro\u003c\/em\u003e con varios textos medievales influidos por la llamada filosof a perenne. 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It then deals with the presence of his schools in the peninsula, among Hispano-Arabs (Ibn Masarra, Ibn Bajja or Avenpace, Ibn Tufayl or Abubacer, Alfarabi or Alfarabius, Al Kindi, Ibn Rush or Averroes and ibn el Arabi); Hebrews (Bahya ibn Pakudah, Zadiq of Cordoba, Yehuda Halevi, Solomon ben Gabirol or Avicebron, Moses ben Ezra of Granada, Samuel ben Tibb n, Simtob ben Falaquera, Abraham Abulafia, Moses ben Maimon or Maimonides of C rdoba, or Kabbalists such as Mois s de Le n ) and Christians (Fra Anselmo de Turmeda, Raymundo Llul); of poets such as Saint Teresa of Avila and Saint John of the Cross, and other cultural aspects that could have been a source of inspiration for the author of \u003cem\u003eThe Book.\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eNext, a comparison of \u003cem\u003eThe Book\u003c\/em\u003e with several medieval texts influenced by the so-called perennial philosophy is presented. 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