Subtle Insights Concerning Knowledge and Practice
Sa'd ibn Mansur Ibn Kammuna al-Baghdadi and Andrew March
Abstract
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 monothe ... More
Keywords: Isfahan, ethics, psychology, political philosophy, unity of God, Jewish scholar, monotheism, medieval philosopher
Bibliographic Information
| Print publication date: 2019 | Print ISBN-13: 9780300203691 |
| Published to Yale Scholarship Online: January 2020 | DOI:10.12987/yale/9780300203691.001.0001 |
