The Development of Arabic Logic (1200–1800)
The Development of Arabic Logic (1200–1800)

Author: Khaled El-Rouayheb

Publisher: Schwabe Verlag (Basel)

Published: 2019-04-09

Total Pages: 338

ISBN-13: 3796539378

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Recent years have seen a dramatic change in scholarly views of the later career of Arabic and Islamic philosophy. For much of the twentieth century, researchers tended to dismiss the value of Arabic writings on philosophy and logic after the twelfth century, often on the basis of the prejudice that handbooks, commentaries and glosses are of necessity pedantic and unoriginal. This assumption has now been abandoned. As a consequence, a vast amount of later Arabic writings on philosophy and logic, hitherto neglected, are now being studied and edited. The present work is an attempt at giving an overview of the development of Arabic logic from 1200 to 1800, identifying major themes, figures and works in this period, while taking into account regional differences within the Islamic world. It offers a corrective to Nicholas Rescher's seminal but now outdated The Development of Arabic Logic, published in 1964.

Relational Syllogisms and the History of Arabic Logic, 900-1900
Relational Syllogisms and the History of Arabic Logic, 900-1900

Author: Khaled El-Rouayheb

Publisher: BRILL

Published: 2010-06-14

Total Pages: 304

ISBN-13: 9004190996

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Relational inferences are a well-known problem for Aristotelian logic. This book charts the development of thinking about this anomaly, from the beginnings of the Arabic logical tradition in the tenth century to the end of the nineteenth. Based in large part on hitherto unstudied manuscripts and rare books, the study shows that the problem of relational inferences was vigorously debated in the thirteenth, fourteenth and fifteenth centuries. In the course of the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries, Ottoman logicians (writing in Arabic) came to recognize relational inferences as a distinct kind of 'unfamiliar syllogism' and began to investigate their logic. These findings show that the development of Arabic logic did not - as is often supposed - come to an end in the fourteenth century. On the contrary, Arabic logic was still being developed by critical and fecund reflections as late as the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries.

The Development of Arabic Logic
The Development of Arabic Logic

Author: Nicholas Rescher

Publisher:

Published: 1964-09

Total Pages: 262

ISBN-13: 9780822983873

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Nicholas Rescher sheds new light on the major philosophical contribution of Arab logicians. He provides a historical account of the evolution of Arabic logic, from its inception in the early ninth century through the sixteenth century, and includes a bio-bibliography of 170 Arabic logicians.

The Works in Logic by Bosniac Authors in Arabic
The Works in Logic by Bosniac Authors in Arabic

Author: Amir Ljubovic

Publisher: BRILL

Published: 2008-11-30

Total Pages: 264

ISBN-13: 9047441974

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The book offers and explains the hypothesis that the end of the 13th century does not denote the “final stage” and the “stage of decay” of Arabic logic as the “Aristotelian logic” continues its life and development in the following period in Bosnia and Herzegovina ̶ either as a subject within the educational system, or as general propaedeutics for each scientific thought ̶ where it had skilled interpreters. The book proves that the people of Bosnia and Herzegovina used almost the same way to compose writings in the field of logic: one in Latin within West-European cultural and theological tradition, and the others in Arabic, within Arabic-islamic tradition.

Aristotle and the Arabic Tradition
Aristotle and the Arabic Tradition

Author: Ahmed Alwishah

Publisher: Cambridge University Press

Published: 2015-09-17

Total Pages: 277

ISBN-13: 1107101735

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Examines Aristotle's vast influence upon the medieval Arabic philosophical tradition and includes contributions from every discipline within his corpus.

Logic and Aristotle's Rhetoric and Poetics in Medieval Arabic Philosophy
Logic and Aristotle's Rhetoric and Poetics in Medieval Arabic Philosophy

Author: Black

Publisher: BRILL

Published: 2022-07-04

Total Pages: 302

ISBN-13: 9004452397

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This book examines a widespread, and often misunderstood, doctrine within the medieval Aristotelian tradition, namely the inclusion of Aristotle's Rhetoric and Poetics within the scope of the Organon. It studies this doctrine, as presented by the Islamic philosophers Al- Fārābī, Avicenna, and Averroes, from a purely philosophical perspective, and argues that the logical construal of the arts of rhetoric and poetics is both interesting and illuminating. The book begins by examining some prevalent misconceptions regarding the logical interpretation of the Rhetoric and Poetics. Chapter two considers the Greek background of the doctrine, first through an examination of the Aristotelian divisions of the sciences, and then through an examination of the beginnings of the logical classification of the Rhetoric and Poetics among the Greek commentators from the school of Alexandria. The remainder of the work is devoted to a detailed consideration of the Arabic philosophers' development of the doctrine, both their understanding of its general epistemological and logical underpinnings, and their elaboration of the specific logical structures upon which poetical and rhetorical discourse is based. Consideration is also given to the relationship between contemporary philosophical views of rhetoric and poetics, and the views of these medieval authors.

Classical Arabic Philosophy
Classical Arabic Philosophy

Author:

Publisher: Hackett Publishing

Published: 2007-03-15

Total Pages: 462

ISBN-13: 1603840338

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This volume introduces the major classical Arabic philosophers through substantial selections from the key works (many of which appear in translation for the first time here) in each of the fields--including logic, philosophy of science, natural philosophy, metaphysics, ethics, and politics--to which they made significant contributions. An extensive Introduction situating the works within their historical, cultural, and philosophical contexts offers support to students approaching the subject for the first time, as well as to instructors with little or no formal training in Arabic thought. A glossary, select bibliography, and index are also included.

The Unity of Science in the Arabic Tradition
The Unity of Science in the Arabic Tradition

Author: Shahid Rahman

Publisher: Springer Science & Business Media

Published: 2008-07-15

Total Pages: 394

ISBN-13: 1402084056

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the demise of the logical positivism programme. The answers given to these qu- tions have deepened the already existing gap between philosophy and the history and practice of science. While the positivists argued for a spontaneous, steady and continuous growth of scientific knowledge the post-positivists make a strong case for a fundamental discontinuity in the development of science which can only be explained by extrascientific factors. The political, social and cultural environment, the argument goes on, determine both the questions and the terms in which they should be answered. Accordingly, the sociological and historical interpretation - volves in fact two kinds of discontinuity which are closely related: the discontinuity of science as such and the discontinuity of the more inclusive political and social context of its development. More precisely it explains the discontinuity of the former by the discontinuity of the latter subordinating in effect the history of science to the wider political and social history. The underlying idea is that each historical and - cial context generates scientific and philosophical questions of its own. From this point of view the question surrounding the nature of knowledge and its development are entirely new topics typical of the twentieth-century social context reflecting both the level and the scale of the development of science.

Al-Fārābī and Aristotelian Syllogistics
Al-Fārābī and Aristotelian Syllogistics

Author: Joep Lameer

Publisher: BRILL

Published: 1994

Total Pages: 382

ISBN-13: 9789004098848

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This pioneer study of Aristotle's theory of deduction in early medieval Islam provides invaluable first-hand information on both the classical and the Islamic dimensions of an important chapter in the history of medieval Islamic philosophy.