Reza Pourjavady, Sabine Schmidtke, "A Jewish Philosopher of Baghdad: Izz Al-dawla Ibn Kammuna (D. 683/1284) and His Writings (Islamic Philosophy, Theology, and Science)"
Publisher: Brill Academic Publishers | 2006 | ISBN 9004151397 | PDF | 287 pages | 10.5 MB
Publisher: Brill Academic Publishers | 2006 | ISBN 9004151397 | PDF | 287 pages | 10.5 MB
For a long time, the study of the life and work of the Jewish thinker ʿIzz al-Dawla Ibn Kammūna (d. 683/1284) remained limited to a very small number of texts. Interest in Ibn Kammūna in the Western Christian world dates back to the 17th century, when Barthélemy dHerbelot (1624-1695) included information on two of Ibn Kammūna's works his examination of the three faiths (Tanqīḥ al-abḥāth li-l-milal al-thalāt), i.e. Judaism, Christianity and Islam, and his commentary on Avicennas al-Ishārāt wa l-tanbīhāt in his Bibliothèque orientale. Subsequent generations of Western scholars were focused on Ibn Kammūnas Tanqīḥ al-abḥāth , whereas his fame in the Eastern lands of Islam was based exclusively on his philosophical writings.
These include a commentary on the Kitāb al-Talwīḥāt by the founder of Illumationist philosophy, Shihāb al-Dīn al-Suhrawardī (d. 587/1191) and numerous independent works on philosophy and logic. Since most of the manuscripts of Ibn Kammūnas philosophical writings are located in the public and private libraries of Iran, Iraq, and Turkey, they were (and are) out of reach for the majority of Western scholars.
The volume gives a detailed account of the available data of Ibn Kammūnas biography, provides an outline of his philosophcial thought and studies in detail the reception of his thought and his writings among later Muslim and Jewish philosophers. An inventory of his entire uvre provides detailed information on the extant manuscripts. The volume furthermore includes editions of nine of his writings.
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