[Avodah] The Rambam, rationalism and mysticism

[David Riceman]

Celejar (or possibly RAF?) wrote:
>
> While I am aware that there is evidence of
> Sufi influence in the thought of various thinkers who lived and wrote
> in Islamic civilizations, I would like to see justification for this
> claim about the Rambam.
>
>   

> R. Abraham Maimonides says very flattering things about the Sufis (IIRC he describes them as, of his contemporaries, the closest in behavior to the Biblical prophets).  I don't know to what extent his father agreed with that opinion, but he's very careful never actually to disagree with his father.

David Riceman