Subtle Insights Concerning Knowledge and Practice (World Thought in Translation)

Ibn Kammuna al-Baghdadi, Saâ d ibn Mansur

ISBN 10: 0300203691 / ISBN 13: 9780300203691

Published by Yale University Press, 2019

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: Subtle Insights Concerning Knowledge and Practice (World Thought in Translation)
• Publisher: Yale University Press
• Publication Date: 2019
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0300203691
• ISBN 13: 9780300203691
• Binding: hardcover
• Condition: Good

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Synopsis

Surprisingly modern essays on the unity of all monotheistic regimens by a medieval philosopher

Written in the mid‑thirteenth century for the newly appointed governor of Isfahan, this compact treatise and philosophical guidebook includes a wide‑ranging and accessible set of essays on ethics, psychology, political philosophy, and the unity of God. Ibn Kammūna,a Jewish scholar writing in Baghdad during a time of Mongol occupation, was a controversial figure whose writings sometimes incited riots. He argued, among other things, the commonality of all monotheisms, both prophetic and philosophical. Here, for the first time in English, is a surprisingly modern work on the unity of all monotheistic regimes from a key medieval philosopher.

About the Author

Sa‘d ibn Mansur Ibn Kammūna al-Baghdādī was a Jewish scholar writing in Baghdad during a time of Mongol occupation in the mid-thirteenth century.
 
Y. Tzvi Langermann is Professor of Arabic at Bar-Ilan University near Tel Aviv.