The boy was "modest, highly refined and unusually good natured"; he was also noted for his brilliant intellect and even while a youth became known as a great scholar.
[4] Abraham's best-known work is his Milhamoth ha-Shem ("The Book of the Wars for God"), in which he answers the critics of his father's philosophical doctrines expressed in The Guide for the Perplexed.
His principal work is entitled "A Comprehensive Guide for the Servants of God" (Judeo-Arabic: כתאב כפיא אלעאבדין, romanized: Kitāb Kifāyah al-`Ābidīn).
Followers of his path continued to foster a Jewish-Sufi form of pietism for at least a century, and he is rightly considered the founder of this pietistic school.
He also wrote a work on Halakha (Jewish law), combined with philosophy and ethics (also in Judeo-Arabic, and arranged after his father's Mishneh Torah), as well as a book of Questions & Responsa, more commonly known as Sefer Birkat Avraham.