The highly original contributions in this volume engage various figures, periods, geographical areas, and topics related to Arabic philosphy and logic. Most of the chapters in this collection are directly related to logic. Some of them are on issues related to the existence of the immaterial human soul, its acquisition of knowledge, and its interaction with the external world in general. A third group of articles deals with some metaphysical issues regarding the world, independently of how it is perceived by the human mind. Many of the articles included in this collection offer solutions to longstanding queries of the discipline or open up entirely new directions for future investigations.
Asad Q. Ahmed is the Magistretti Distinguished Professor Middle Eastern Languages and Cultures at the University of California, Berkeley. His works include The Religious Elite of the Early Islamic Hijaz (University of Oxford, 2011) and Palimpsests of Themselves: Logic and Commentary in Postclassical Muslim South Asia (UC Press, 2022).
Mohammad Saleh Zarepour is a Senior Lecturer at the Department of Philosophy of the University of Manchester. His works include Medieval Finitism (Cambridge University Press, forthcoming) and Necessary Existence and Monotheism (Cambridge University Press, 2022).
Riccardo Strobino is Associate Professor of Classical Studies at Tufts University. His works include Avicenna's Theory of Science: Logic, Metaphysics, Epistemology (UC Press, 2021).
Notes on Contributors
Introduction
âAsad Q. Ahmed, Mohammad Saleh Zarepour and Riccardo Strobino
Interview with Tony Street: A Retrospective
1 Al-FÄrÄbÄ« on Future Contingency
âMohammad Saleh Zarepour
2 âSubtractionâ (rafÊ¿) as Method for Finding First Principles of Demonstrations and for Establishing or Destroying: From Aristotle to al-FÄrÄbÄ«
âCornelia Schoeck
3 On Avicennaâs Theory of Conception and Assertion: Towards a Systematic Ambiguity Reading
âZhenhyu Cai
4 Struggling with the Essentials: A Debate between Avicenna and His Contemporaries on Essentiality and Necessity in Demonstrations
âSilvia Di Vincenzo
5 Avicenna and as-Suhrawardī on the Flying Man: From the Flying Man to Existentialism
âTianyi Zhang
6 Al-KÄtibÄ«âs Deduction of the Predicables
âPaul Thom
7 Harmonizing the Sages: Abravanel Reading Maimonides through Avicenna and Averroes
âDaniel Davies
8 As-SuhrawardÄ«âs Stance on Modalities and the Logic of Presence
âShahid Rahman and Alioune Seck
9 The Logic of Divine Discourse: Fakhr ad-DÄ«n ar-RÄzÄ«âs Application of Logic to QurʾÄnic Interpretation
âTareq Moqbel
10 A Problem with the Wholly Hypothetical Syllogism: Some 13th-Century Arabic Discussions
âKhaled El-Rouayheb
11 A 12th Century Attack on Peripatetic Logic: RashÄ«d ad-DÄ«n al-Waá¹wÄá¹âs (d. 1182) Treatise âA Doubt About reductio ad absurdumâ and Its Aftermath
âDustin Klinger
12 Four Moves to Rule Them All: QiyÄs-Dialectic Metatheories and the Ascendancy of Master-Category Objections in Post-Classical Islamic Dialectics
âWalter Young
13 The Negative-Predicate Proposition in Later Arabic Logic
âAsad Q. Ahmed
14 Prolegomena to a Critical Edition of as-SÄwÄ«âs Baá¹£Äʾir
âOsama Eshera, Fateme Savadi and Robert Wisnovsky
Index
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