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The Battle for the Jewish Mind: The Maimonidean Controversies and Why They Matter Today

The Battle for the Jewish Mind: The Maimonidean Controversies and Why They Matter Today

Kahen, Sina

Paperback

Judaism

ISBN13: 9798251006797
Publisher: Independently Published
Published: Mar 12 2026
Pages: 154
Weight: 0.47
Height: 0.36 Width: 6.00 Depth: 9.00
Language: English
In the winter of 1232, Dominican friars burned the philosophical writings of Maimonides in a Montpellier marketplace - invited to do so by a faction of Jews who feared that rationality was corroding faith. The Battle for the Jewish Mind recovers what those flames tried to destroy: the worldly rabbinic tradition, which held that Torah and the sciences were not enemies but partners in the knowledge of God. Drawing on the letters, bans, counter-bans, and polemics of the Maimonidean Controversies - some of the most dramatic and least-studied episodes in Jewish history - Sina Kahen traces the clashes between two schools of Jewish thought, and their relevance today.

Foreword by Rabbi Yosef Zarnighian

Sina Kahen is the Founder of Da'at Press. He works in the Medical Tech and AI industries. He is the author of various books including The Promised Land of AI, and his forthcoming Human Becoming: Judaism's Roadmap to Self-Integration. He holds a degree in Biomedical Sciences and an MBA from Imperial College. Sina lives in London with his wife and two children.

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