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Sa‘d ibn Mansur Ibn Kammuna al-Baghdadi; Translated, with an Introduction and Commentary, by Y. Tzvi Langermann
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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.
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.
Sa‘d ibn Mansur Ibn Kammuna al-Baghdadi 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.
Y. Tzvi Langermann is Professor of Arabic at Bar-Ilan University near Tel Aviv.
ISBN: 9780300203691
Publication Date: October 22, 2019
Publication Date: October 22, 2019
216 pages, 5 1/2 x 8 1/4
