The mystics of three religions leave their marks on the face of Granada. The Zohar, the central text of the Kabbalah, was written by one of the city's native sons, Moses de Leon. Granada's monasteries include one built by Saint John of the Cross, as he struggled to find a place for his ecstatic Christian practice in the rigid dogmatism of Spain. And the jewel of the city, the Alhambra, stands as a shrine to the days when Sufi poets first poured their passions into verse, centuries before Rumi needed an agent. It is there, in the corridors of the Alhambra, that John Macmillan, the secular mystic at the center of Pico... More >>>