An excellent example of this pluralistic view can be seen in 'Abd al-Lat-if al-Baghd5di (d. 629/1231), who was a commentator on Aristotelian metaphysics and various medical texts, writer on mathematics and the natural sciences, historian, author of a book on diabetes, and one of the physicians of Saladin; but he was also a savant of the Islamic religious sciences and author of a "Medicine of th...