Authors: Wael B. Hallaq (Translator), Hallaq
ISBN-13: 9780198240433, ISBN-10: 0198240430
Format: Hardcover
Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
Date Published: November 1993
Edition: (Non-applicable)
McGill University, Montreal
Ibn Taymiyya, one of the greatest and most prolific thinkers of medieval Islam, held Greek logic responsible for the "heretical" metaphysical conclusions reached by Islamic philosophers, theologians, mystics, and others. Unlike Ghazali, who rejected philosophical metaphysics but embraced logic, Ibn Taymiyya considered the two inextricably connected. He therefore set out to refute philosophical logic, a task which culminated in one of the most devastating attacks ever levelled against the logical system upheld by the early Greeks, the later commentators, and their Muslim followers. His argument is grounded in an empirical approach that in many respects prefigures the philosophies of the British empiricists. Hallaq's translation, with a substantial introduction and extensive notes, makes available to a wider audience for the first time an important work that will be of interest to specialists in ancient and medieval philosophy and to historians of logic and empiricist philosophy, as well as to scholars of Islam and Middle Eastern thought.
Introduction | ||
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 | |
1 | Concerning the Logicians' Doctrine that no Concept can be Formed Except by Means of Definition | 6 |
2 | Concerning the Logicians' Doctrine that Definition Leads to the Conception of Things | 12 |
3 | Concerning the Logicians' Doctrine that no Judgement may be Known Except by Means of Syllogism | 30 |
4 | Concerning the Logicians' Doctrine that Syllogism or Demonstration Leads to the Certain Knowledge of Judgements | 131 |
Emendations to the Arabic Text | 175 | |
List of Paragraphs | 178 | |
References | 183 | |
Index of Titles in the Text | 197 | |
Index of Arabic Terms | 198 | |
General Index | 202 |