Cabala (alternately Kabbala(h) or Qabala(h)) may refer to:

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Kabbalah Kabbalah or Qabalah ( ; , ; ) is an esoteric method, discipline and school of thought in Jewish mysticism. It forms the foundation of Mysticism, mystical religious interpretations within Judaism. A traditional Kabbalist is called a Mekubbal ...

(קַבָּלָה), an esoteric method, discipline and school of thought in Jewish mysticism **

Lurianic Kabbalah Lurianic Kabbalah is a school of Kabbalah named after Isaac Luria (1534–1572), the Jewish rabbi who developed it. Lurianic Kabbalah gave a seminal new account of Kabbalistic thought that its followers synthesised with, and read into, the earli ...

, a school of Kabbalah named after Isaac Luria **

Meditative Kabbalah Jewish meditation includes practices of settling the mind, introspection, visualization, emotional insight, contemplation of Names of God in Judaism, divine names, or concentration on philosophical, ethical or mystical ideas. Meditation may accom ...

, a meditative tradition within Jewish Kabbalah **

Practical Kabbalah Practical Kabbalah ( ''Kabbalah Ma'asit'') in historical Judaism, is a branch of Jewish mysticism that concerns the use of magic. It was considered permitted white magic by its practitioners, reserved for the elite, who could separate its spiri ...

, a branch of the Jewish mystical tradition that concerns the use of magic ** Prophetic Kabbalah, or Ecstatic Kabbalah,

Abraham Abulafia Abraham ben Samuel Abulafia () was the founder of the school of "Prophetic Kabbalah". He was born in Zaragoza, Spain, in 1240, and is assumed to have died sometime after 1291 following a stay on the small and windswept island of Comino (the smal ...

's school of Meditative Kabbalah *

Christian Kabbalah Christian Kabbalah arose during the Renaissance due to Christian scholars' interest in the mysticism of Kabbalah, Jewish Kabbalah, which they interpreted according to Christian theology. Often spelled Cabala to distinguish it from the Jewish for ...

, a Christian interpretation of Jewish Kabbalah *

Hermetic Qabalah Hermetic Qabalah () is a Western esoteric tradition involving mysticism and the occult. It is the underlying philosophy and framework for magical societies such as the Hermetic Order of the Golden Dawn, has inspired esoteric Christian organiz ...

, a Western esoteric tradition involving mysticism and the occult ** English Qabalah, various systems of English numerology related to Hermetic Qabalah that interpret the letters of the Latin script or English alphabet via an assigned set of numerological significances **

English Qaballa English Qaballa (EQ) is a Hermetic Qabalah, based on a system of arithmancy that interprets the letters of the English alphabet via an assigned set of values. It was created by James Lees in 1976, through his efforts to understand, interpret, and ...

, a system of Hermetic Qabalah, supported by a system of numerology that interprets the letters of the English alphabet via an assigned set of values ** Trigrammaton Qabalah, a system of Hermetic Qabalah based on ''Liber Trigrammaton''

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* Battle of Cabala, a 4th-century BC battle between Carthage and Syracuse *

Qabala District Qabala District () is one of the 66 Administrative divisions of Azerbaijan, districts of Azerbaijan. It is located in the north of the country in the Shaki-Zagatala Economic Region. The district borders the districts of Oghuz District, Oghuz ...

, a district of Azerbaijan **

Qabala Qabala () is a city and the administrative centre of the Qabala District of Azerbaijan. The municipality consists of the city of Gabala and the village of Küsnət, Qabala, Küsnat. Before the city was known as Kutkashen, but after the Republic o ...

, a city and municipality in Azerbaijan

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