Subtle Insights Concerning Knowledge and Practice = Kalimāt wajīza mushtamila 'alā nukat laṭīfa fī al-'ilm wa-l-'amal / Sa'd ibn Mansur Ibn Kammūna al-Baghdādī ; translated, with an introduction and commentary, by Y. Tzvi Langermann

Y. Tzvi Langermann

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Abstract

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 Kammuna, 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.
Original languageEnglish
Place of PublicationNew Haven
PublisherYale University Press
Number of pages208
ISBN (Print)9780300249569, 9780300203691
StatePublished - 2019

Publication series

NameWorld Thought in Translation

Bibliographical note

vi, 208 pages

Keywords

  • God -- Early works to 1800

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