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Download or read book Subtle Insights Concerning Knowledge and Practice written by Sa'd ibn Mansur Ibn Kammuna al-Baghdadi and published by Yale University Press. This book was released on 2019-01-01 with total page 217 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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 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 monotheistic regimes from a key medieval philosopher.