Subtle Insights concerning Knowledge and Practice: Kalimat wajiza mushtamila 'ala nukat latifa fi al-'ilm wa-l-'amal

Ibn Kammuna al-Baghdadi, Sa'd ibn Mansur

ISBN 10: 0300203691 / ISBN 13: 9780300203691

Editore: Yale University Press, 2019

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Mid-thirteenth-century philosophical guidebook written by a Jewish scholar living in Baghdad during a time of Mongol occupation. Translated and edited by Y. Tzvi Langermann. World Thought in Translation. vi, 208 pp. Hardcover with pictorial boards. Unread, as new. New list price: $85.00.

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• Titolo: Subtle Insights concerning Knowledge and Practice: Kalimat wajiza mushtamila 'ala nukat latifa fi al-'ilm wa-l-'amal
• Editore: Yale University Press
• Data di pubblicazione: 2019
• Lingua: Inglese
• ISBN 10: 0300203691
• ISBN 13: 9780300203691
• Rilegatura: Rilegato

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Riassunto

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.

Informazioni sull?autore

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.