While I am, for the casual reader, frightened of the rigid scholarly nature of this book, I am confident that it is one of the most intricately authentic books of historical Medieval philosophical thought being published today. Knowing the author personally, I am well aware of his veritable grasp of a variety of knowledges. Fluent in several languages and educated at the University of Bonn in Germany, Dr. Kassim is now an ever effulgent professor of wit and wisdom to a perpetually dwindling humanities and philosophy department at the University of Central Florida. With a teaching style that blends the menacing intensity of Anastasia's Rasputin (with a set of eyes to match) and the brilliance of a comically humbled intellectual giant, Husain is worthy of any budding, continuing, or advanced medievalist scholar. This being stated, I highly recommend not only purchasing the book, but also registering in, if at all possible, the Unversity of Central Florida's Medieval Philosophy course to greatly supplement the text.