Carried in Darkness
The Jewish Philosopher of Baghdad Who Wrote the Truth and Was Smuggled Out in a BoxBy Narin Hikma
Length8h 1m
About this audiobook
What does it cost to follow an honest thought all the way to the end?
In 1280, a Jewish physician in Baghdad examined Judaism, Christianity, and Islam by a single standard—refusing to exempt his own faith. Near the end, he wrote one sentence that could destroy him. He could have struck it out. He left it standing.
For four years, nothing happened. Then a preacher read that sentence aloud, and a crowd gathered outside his door calling for him to be burned.
His name was Ibn Kammuna. Carried in Darkness is his recovered life—from the Jewish quarter of Baghdad through the Mongol collapse to a night road and the four people who saved him.
• Watch a physician's discipline become a death sentence
• See why a book can sit harmless for years and detonate in an afternoon
This is for anyone who has ever swallowed an honest thought because they feared the room. The crowd is forgotten. The sentence is still here.
Open the first page.
Audiobook details
GenreBiography and Memoir, Spirituality and Religion
Length8 hrs 1 min
Narrated byListen with 1,000+ voices
FormateBook with Audio
Publish dateMar 14, 2023
LanguageEnglish
Table of contents
1Dedication
2Epigraph
3Prologue
41. The Physician's Hands
52. A City That Argued With Itself
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63. The Man Who Was Not There
74. The Year the Libraries Burned
85. What You Do the Morning After
96. The Master Who Was Executed
107. How Do You Know It Works?
118. Letters to the Observatory
129. The One Thing They Cannot Take
1310. How Much Truth Does a Room Deserve?
1411. The Question Under the Floor
1512. What He Actually Wrote
1613. What He Believed
1714. Three Lamps, One Light
1815. The Four Quiet Years
1916. The Sermon
2017. The House
2118. The Amir Between
2219. The Box
2320. What Did Not Burn
24Epilogue
2521. Author's Note
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