Relational syllogisms and the history of Arabic logic, 900-1900 / by Khaled El-Rouayheb.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

El-Rouayheb, Khaled

Series:

Islamic philosophy, theology, and science ; v. 80.

Islamic philosophy, theology and science. Texts and studies ; v. 80

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Syllogism--History.

Syllogism.

Islamic philosophy--History.

Islamic philosophy.

History.

Inference.

Physical Description:

viii, 295 pages ; 25 cm.

Place of Publication:

Leiden ; Boston : Brill, 2010.

Summary:

Relational Inferences are a well-known problem for Aristorehan 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 it 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. Book jacket.

Contents:

1 The 'Classical' Period, 900-1200 14

I Farabi (d. 950) and Ibn Zur'a (d. 1008) 14

II Avicenna (d. 1037) and the Avicennian Tradition 18

III Abu l-Barakat al-Baghdadi (d. 1165), Averroes (d. 1198), and Suhrawardi (d. 1191) 27

IV Conclusion 36

2 The Challenge of Fakhr al-Din al-Razi (d. 1210) and its Aftermath, 1200-1350 39

I Fakhr al-Din al-Razi (d. 1210) 39

II The Post-Razi Discussion, 1200-1300 48

III Sadr al-Shana (d. 1346) and Qutb al-Din al-Razi (d. 1365) 63

3 Epitomes, Commentaries and Glosses, 1350-1600 70

I The North African Logical Tradition, 1350-1600 71

II Eastern Writings on Logic, 1350-1500 79

III Dawani (d. 1502) versus Dashtaki (d. 1498) 92

IV Mirza Jan Baghnavi (d. 1586) 104

V Sixteenth-Century Commentaries on Tahdhib al-mantiq 108

4 The Christian-Arabic, North African, Indo-Muslim and Iranian Traditions of Logic, 1600-1900 113

I The Christian-Arabic Tradition 114

II The North African Tradition 118

III The Indo-Muslim Tradition 124

IV The Iranian Tradition 133

V Conclusion 155

5 Ottoman Logic, 1600-1800 157

I Husayn Khalkhali (d. 1604) and Mehmed Emin Sirvani (d. 1627) 158

II Musa Pehlevani (d. 1720) 163

III Mehmed Tavuskari (fl. 1748) 174

IV Unfamiliar Syllogisms in Ottoman Logic, 1750-1800 182

V Conclusion 194

6 Ismail Gelenbevi (d. 1791) and the Logic of Unfamiliar Syllogisms 196

I Ismail Gelenbevi (d. 1791) 196

II The Logic of Unfamiliar Syllogisms 201

III Conclusion 224

Appendix 227

7 The Ottoman Tradition: The Nineteenth Century 228

I Decline? 228

II The Rise of the 'New Principles' (Usul-i Cedide) 236

III Ahmed Hadi Maksudi (d. 1941) 249

IV Conclusion 253.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and indexes.

ISBN:

9789004183193

9004183191

OCLC:

569552239