Maimonides' Confrontation with Mysticism

Many books on Maimonides have been written andstill more will appear. Few present Maimonides, as Menachem Kellner doesagainst the actual religious background that informed his many innovative andinfluential choices. He not only analyses the thought of the great religiousthinker but contextualizes it in terms of the ‘proto-kabbalistic’ Judaism thatpreceded him. Kellner shows how the Judaism that Maimonides knew had come toconceptualize the world as an enchanted universe, governed by occultaffinit