[Avodah] The Rambam, rationalism and mysticism

[Yitzhak Grossman]

On Mon, 24 Sep 2007 19:37:41 -0400
David Riceman <driceman at att.net> wrote:

> Celejar (or possibly RAF?) wrote:

I, Yitzhak Grossman.

> > 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

I would have to sees the exact RA quote, but there's a difference
between "saying flattering things" about them and approving of their
behavior, on the one hand, and being influenced by their thought on the
other.

Yitzhak
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