A Jewish Philosopher of Baghdad

A Jewish Philosopher of Baghdad (Isfahan, 2016), coauthored by Sabine Schmidtke, Professor in the School of Historical Studies, is a new edition of the title by Schmidtke and Pourjavady originally published by Brill in 2006. Newly translated by Jawad Qasemi and revised by Hamid Ataei Nazari, the volume gives a detailed account of the available data of Ibn Kammūna’s biography, outlines his philosophical thought, and studies in detail the reception of his writings among later Muslim and Jewish philosophers.

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. Since most of the manuscripts of Ibn Kammūna’s 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, despite continued interest in his works. The present volume provides an inventory of his entire œuvre with detailed information on the extant manuscripts, and includes editions of nine of his writings.