Palimpsests of Themselves : Logic and Commentary in Postclassical Muslim South Asia / Asad Q. Ahmed.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Ahmed, Asad Q., author.

Series:

Berkeley Series in Postclassical Islamic Scholarship

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Bahārī, Muḥibb Allāh ibn ʻAbd al-Shakūr, -1707 or 1708. Sullam al-ʻulūm.

Bahārī, Muḥibb Allāh ibn ʻAbd al-Shakūr.

Social sciences.

Physical Description:

1 online resource.

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

University of California Press 2022

[s.l.] : University of California Press, 2022.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

Palimpsests of Themselves is an intervention in current discussions about the fate of philosophy in postclassical Islamic intellectual history. Asad Q. Ahmed uses as a case study the most advanced logic textbook of Muslim South Asia, The Ladder of the Sciences, presenting in English its first full translation and extended commentary. He offers detailed assessments of the technical contributions of the work, explores the social and institutional settings of the vast commentarial response it elicited, and develops a theory of the philosophical commentary that is internal to the tradition. These approaches to the commentarial text complicate presuppositions upon which questions of Islam's intellectual decline are erected. As such, Ahmed offers a unique and powerful opportunity to understand the transmission of knowledge across the Islamic world.

Contents:

Introduction

The ladder of the sciences and its commentaries

The ladder of the sciences : contents and orientations

Anatomy of the commentary : an internal view

Anatomy of the commentary : a view from above

A translation and study of the Sullam.

Notes:

CC BY-NC-ND

Description based on print version record.

ISBN:

9780520975767

0520975766

OCLC:

1338019725

Publisher Number:

https://doi.org/10.1525/luminos.127