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About The Mantiqi
The Mantiqi is a place to learn manṭiq, the classical logic of the madrasa, from its own texts, and to read about its books, scholars and curricula.
Two parts
- The encyclopedia: the handbooks of manṭiq and a library of works by century, the scholars who wrote and taught them, the madrasa curricula, and news from manṭiq and its neighbouring sciences.
- The study portal: three madrasa paths of four levels each. The Indian path begins with al-Jurjānī's Persian Ṣughrā and Kubrā, the Ottoman path with al-Abharī's Īsāghūjī term by term, and the North-African path with al-Akhḍarī's Sullam al-munawraq. Every lesson ends with a short test; the next one opens when you pass it.
The text first
The lessons follow the order of the books themselves, and the texts are given in the original, from public-domain prints named on every page, with our translations beside them. Your progress is kept on this device only.
The teacher
Ustadh Muhammad Yusuf
Reviews the explanations
Ustadh Muhammad Yusuf reviews what The Mantiqi teaches. Until a page has been reviewed, it stays marked as a draft.
Born and based in the United Kingdom, he memorised the Qurʾān and completed an ʿālimiyya programme equivalent to the Dars-i Niẓāmī. He went on to study the rational sciences (logic, kalām and philosophy) at Jāmiʿa Qāsimiyya and privately.
Among his teachers
- Mawlānā Bilāl Darwish (Mabādi al-Falsafah, Hidāyat al-Ḥikmah, al-Musāmarah Sharḥ al-Musāyarah, Sharḥ al-ʿAqāʾid al-ʿAḍudiyyah)
- Mawlānā Farūq Hāmāyun al-Ḥaqqānī (Mulla Jalāl, Qāḍī Mubārak, Ḥamdullah, Maybudhī, Ḥusāmī, Mīr Zāhid Umūr ʿĀmmah)
- Muftī Muḥammad Shuʿayb (Mirqāt, Sharḥ al-Tahdhīb, Hidāyat al-Naḥw, Nūr al-Anwār)
- Muftī Ḥāmid Ābyārā al-Ḥaqqānī (Ḥikmat al-ʿAyn, Ṭawāliʿ al-Anwār)
- Muftī Mujīb al-Raḥman al-Ḥaqqānī (al-Hadiyyah al-Saʿīdiyyah)
- Mawlānā ʿAbd al-Qahhār al-Ḥaqqānī (Mullā Khayālī, Sharḥ al-ʿAqāʾid)
- Mawlānā Khādim Muḥammad al-Ḥaqqānī (Quṭbī, Mabādi al-Falsafah)
- Mawlānā Muḥammad Rabbānī al-Ḥaqqānī (Sullam al-ʿUlūm)
- Mawlānā Rāshid al-Aḥsanī (Khulāṣat al-Ḥisāb, Taḥrīr Uqlīdis)
Site owner
Abu Hikma-Zahid
Builds and supports The Mantiqi
The Mantiqi is built, run and supported by brother Abu Hikma-Zahid.
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