  Ibn Kammuna looms as a philosophical writer, a learned and keen student, who bequeathed to posterity not a “philosophy” but rather a rich assortment of philosophical studies. Some, such as his New Wisdom, aimed at a synthesis; others, like his commentary to Suhrawardi, are primarily an essay in the interpretation of the thought of others; yet others, e.g., the monographs mentioned in the preceding section, address specific issues to whose resolution Ibn Kammuna feels he can contribute. Scholarship on his output, however, has displayed less interest in literary form, intended audience, and specific objectives; instead, in keeping with an academic tradition, it has focused by and large upon the identification of his “sources”, even at the level of sentence by sentence, or phrase by phrase, analysis. This approach has reaped some important insights, for example, the combination of Avicennan and Suhrawardian statements in connection with the notion of existence.