Ibn Taymiyya against the Greek logicians / translated with an introduction and notes by Wael B. Hallaq.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Ibn Taymīyah, Aḥmad ibn ʻAbd al-Ḥalīm, 1263-1328, author.

Contributor:

Hallaq, Wael B., 1955- editor.

Ibn Taymīyah, Aḥmad ibn ʻAbd al-Ḥalīm, 1263-1328.

Standardized Title:

Jahd al-qarīḥah fī tajrīd al-Naṣīḥah. English

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Faith and reason--Islam--Early works to 1800.

Faith and reason.

Islam--Doctrines--Early works to 1800.

Islam.

Logic--Early works to 1800.

Logic.

Logic, Medieval.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (lviii, 204 pages)

Place of Publication:

Oxford : Clarendon, 1993.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

The first translation of this work by Ibn Taymiyya, one of the greatest thinkers of medieval Islam, the book is a critique of Greek logic, which he saw as the source of the erroneous and heretical metaphysics propounded by medieval philosophers theologians and mystics.

Contents:

I. Ibn Taymiyya's Opponents and his Refutation of the Logicians

II. Sources of the Critique

III. Ibn Taymiyya's Discourse

IV. The Arabic Texts

V. Notes on the Translation

Jahd al-Qariha fi Tajrid al-Nasiha

1. Concerning the Logicians' Doctrine that no Concept can be Formed Except by Means of Definition

2. Concerning the Logicians' Doctrine that Definition Leads to the Conception of Things

3. Concerning the Logicians' Doctrine that no Judgement may be Known Except by Means of Syllogism

4. Concerning the Logicians' Doctrine that Syllogism or Demonstration Leads to the Certain Knowledge of Judgements

Emendations to the Arabic Text.

Notes:

Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph

Description based on print version record.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Related Work:

Ibn Taymīyah, Aḥmad ibn ʻAbd al-Ḥalīm, 1263-1328. Naṣīḥat ahl al-bayān fī al-radd ʻalá manṭiq al-Yūnān.

Other Format:

Print version

ISBN:

0-19-168017-6

0-19-824043-0