World Thought in Translation: Subtle Insights Concerning Knowledge and Practice
By: Ibn Kammuna al-Baghdadi, Sa'd Ibn Mansurselect image to view/enlarge/scroll
By: | Ibn Kammuna al-Baghdadi, Sa'd Ibn Mansur |
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Language: | English |
Format: | Hardcover |
Pages: | 208 pp |
Publisher: | Yale University Press, New Haven, 2019 |
Dimensions: | 14.5 x 21 cm / 5.5 x 8.25 inches |
ISBN-13: | 9780300203691 |
Topic: | Early Work - Translated World Thought - Monotheism |
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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.