Logic, Soul, and World

Essays in Arabic Philosophy in Honor of Tony Street
Erscheinungsjahr 2025
ISBN: 978-90-04-72727-4
Verlag: Brill

Buch, Englisch, Band 130, 525 Seiten, Format (B × H): 155 mm x 235 mm

Reihe: Islamic Philosophy, Theology and Science. Texts and Studies

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.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Weitere Mitwirkende

Ahmed, Asad Q.

Zarepour, Mohammad Saleh

Strobino, Riccardo

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Islam & Islamische Studien Islam: Philosophie & Wissenschaften
• Geisteswissenschaften Philosophie Nicht-Westliche Philosophie Islamische & Arabische Philosophie

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Notes on Contributors

Introduction Asad Q. Ahmed, Mohammad Saleh Zarepour and Riccardo Strobino

Interview with Tony Street: A Retrospective

1 Al-Farabi on Future Contingency Mohammad Saleh Zarepour

2 ‘Subtraction’ (raf?) as Method for Finding First Principles of Demonstrations and for Establishing or Destroying: From Aristotle to al-Farabi Cornelia Schoeck

3 On Avicenna’s Theory of Conception and Assertion: Towards a Systematic Ambiguity Reading Zhenhyu Cai

4 Struggling with the Essentials: A Debate between Avicenna and His Contemporaries on Essentiality and Necessity in Demonstrations Silvia Di Vincenzo

5 Avicenna and as-Suhrawardi on the Flying Man: From the Flying Man to Existentialism Tianyi Zhang

6 Al-Katibi’s Deduction of the Predicables Paul Thom

7 Harmonizing the Sages: Abravanel Reading Maimonides through Avicenna and Averroes Daniel Davies

8 As-Suhrawardi’s Stance on Modalities and the Logic of Presence Shahid Rahman and Alioune Seck

9 The Logic of Divine Discourse: Fakhr ad-Din ar-Razi’s Application of Logic to Qur?anic Interpretation Tareq Moqbel

10 A Problem with the Wholly Hypothetical Syllogism: Some 13th-Century Arabic Discussions Khaled El-Rouayheb

11 A 12th Century Attack on Peripatetic Logic: Rashid ad-Din al-Wa?wa?’s (d. 1182) Treatise “A Doubt About reductio ad absurdum” and Its Aftermath Dustin Klinger

12 Four Moves to Rule Them All: Qiyas-Dialectic Metatheories and the Ascendancy of Master-Category Objections in Post-Classical Islamic Dialectics Walter Young

13 The Negative-Predicate Proposition in Later Arabic Logic Asad Q. Ahmed

14 Prolegomena to a Critical Edition of as-Sawi’s Ba?a?ir Osama Eshera, Fateme Savadi and Robert Wisnovsky

Index

Über Autor(innen)

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).