Development of Arabic Logic (1200-1800)

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• Publisher: Schwabe Verlag (Basel)
• Year: 2019
• eBook ISBN: 9783796539374
• Edition: 0
• Topic: Philosophy

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 It offers a corrective to Nicholas Rescher''s seminal but now outdated The Development of Arabic Logic, published in 1964.

Table of contents

• Contents
• Acknowledgments
• Note on Transliteration, Dates, and Translations
• I. Introduction
• II. Prologue: Arabic Logic up to 1200
• III. Arabic Logic, 1200–1350
• IV. 1350–1600: The Eastern Islamic Tradition
• V. 1350–1600: The Western Islamic Tradition
• VI. 1600–1800: The Iranian Tradition
• VII. 1600–1800: The Indo-Muslim Tradition
• XIII. 1600–1800: The Ottoman Turkish Tradition
• IX. 1600–1800: The North African Tradition
• X. 1600–1800: The Christian Arabic Tradition
• XI. Conclusion
• References
• Index of Terms
• Index of Personal Names
• Index of Titles