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The works of manṭiq from al-Fārābī to the modern madrasa: the six handbooks the madrasas read, with their commentaries and glosses, and the treatises around them. Search by title, author or subject.
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2nd/8th century
3rd/9th century
- Risāla fī kammiyyat kutub Arisṭūṭālīsal-Kindī · d. c. 252/866 · TreatiseAl-Kindī's epistle On the Quantity of Aristotle's Books is a guide to the Aristotelian corpus that sets out what a student must read, and in what order, to acquire philosophy.رِسَالَةٌ فِي كَمِّيَّةِ كُتُبِ أَرِسْطُوطَالِيسَ وَمَا يُحْتَاجُ إِلَيْهِ فِي تَحْصِيلِ الفَلْسَفَةِ
- Manṭiq Arisṭū (the Arabic Organon)Isḥāq b. Ḥunayn, Abū Bishr Mattā et al. (translators) · d. 298/910 · TranslationThe Arabic Organon is the body of translations through which Muslim logicians read Aristotle: Porphyry's Isagoge, the Categories, De interpretatione, the Prior and Posterior Analytics, the Topics and the Sophistical Refutations, together with the Rhetoric and the Poetics, which the Arabic tradition counted as part of logic.مَنْطِقُ أَرِسْطُو
4th/10th century
- al-Qiyās al-ṣaghīral-Fārābī · d. 339/950 · TreatiseThe Short Treatise on the Syllogism is a compact account of the Prior Analytics, also known as the logic 'in the way of the theologians'.كِتَابُ القِيَاسِ الصَّغِيرِ
- Iḥṣāʾ al-ʿulūmal-Fārābī · d. 339/950 · Part of a larger workThe Enumeration of the Sciences surveys the sciences in five chapters: language, logic, mathematics, physics with metaphysics, and the civil sciences together with fiqh and kalām.إِحْصَاءُ العُلُومِ
- Kitāb al-Alfāẓ al-mustaʿmala fī al-manṭiqal-Fārābī · d. 339/950 · TreatiseThe Utterances Employed in Logic introduces the vocabulary a beginner needs before the Organon proper.كِتَابُ الأَلْفَاظِ المُسْتَعْمَلَةِ فِي المَنْطِقِ
- Kitāb al-Ḥurūfal-Fārābī · d. 339/950 · TreatiseThe Book of Letters takes its name from the particles of the language and is often read alongside Aristotle's Metaphysics.كِتَابُ الحُرُوفِ
- Sharḥ al-ʿIbāraal-Fārābī · d. 339/950 · CommentaryThis is the only one of al-Fārābī's long commentaries on the Organon to survive complete: a section-by-section exposition of De interpretatione in Isḥāq b.شَرْحُ الفَارَابِيِّ لِكِتَابِ أَرِسْطُوطَالِيسَ فِي العِبَارَةِ
5th/11th century
- al-Ishārāt wa-l-tanbīhāt (logic)Ibn Sīnā · d. 428/1037 · HandbookPointers and Reminders is probably Ibn Sīnā's last major work, written in short paragraphs headed 'pointer' (ishāra), 'reminder' (tanbīh) and the like; its logic part is divided into ten sections (nahj).الإِشَارَاتُ وَالتَّنْبِيهَاتُ
- al-Najāt (logic)Ibn Sīnā · d. 428/1037 · Part of a larger workThe Deliverance is a shorter compendium of Ibn Sīnā's philosophy whose first part is logic; much of its logic reflects his earlier views, though it stands methodologically close to the Shifāʾ.كِتَابُ النَّجَاةِ
- al-Shifāʾ: al-ManṭiqIbn Sīnā · d. 428/1037 · Part of a larger workThe logic of The Cure is Ibn Sīnā's most comprehensive treatment of the subject, written in the 1020s as the first part of his philosophical encyclopedia.كِتَابُ الشِّفَاءِ: المَنْطِقُ
- Dānishnāma-yi ʿAlāʾī (logic)Ibn Sīnā · d. 428/1037 · Part of a larger work · PersianThe Book of Knowledge for ʿAlāʾ al-Dawla is Ibn Sīnā's philosophical compendium in Persian, written for the Kakuyid ruler whom he served as vizier; Gutas dates it to 418/1027.دَانِشْنَامَهٔ عَلَائِی
- Manṭiq al-mashriqiyyīnIbn Sīnā · d. 428/1037 · TreatiseThe Logic of the Easterners is the surviving logic section of Ibn Sīnā's 'Eastern' philosophy (al-Mashriqiyyūn), a work in which he set out his own views without following Aristotle's terminology or the exegetical problems of the Baghdad Aristotelians.مَنْطِقُ المَشْرِقِيِّينَ
- al-Taqrīb li-ḥadd al-manṭiqIbn Ḥazm · d. 456/1064 · HandbookThe Approach to the Limits of Logic is the first book on logic by an Andalusian author, written to bring Aristotelian logic within reach of jurists through ordinary words and examples from fiqh and kalām.التَّقْرِيبُ لِحَدِّ المَنْطِقِ وَالمَدْخَلِ إِلَيْهِ بِالأَلْفَاظِ العَامِّيَّةِ وَالأَمْثِلَةِ الفِقْهِيَّةِ
- Maqāṣid al-falāsifa (logic)al-Ghazālī · d. 505/1111 · Part of a larger workThe Doctrines of the Philosophers sets out the logic, metaphysics and physics of the falāsifa, and is in large part a loose Arabic adaptation of Ibn Sīnā's Persian Dānishnāma-yi ʿAlāʾī.مَقَاصِدُ الفَلَاسِفَةِ
- Miḥakk al-naẓaral-Ghazālī · d. 505/1111 · HandbookThe Touchstone of Reasoning is al-Ghazālī's other full logic manual, close to the Miʿyār al-ʿilm in contents and order, treating the syllogism and then definition.مِحَكُّ النَّظَرِ فِي المَنْطِقِ
- Miʿyār al-ʿilmal-Ghazālī · d. 505/1111 · HandbookThe Standard of Knowledge was written around 1095 alongside the Tahāfut al-falāsifa, to teach the philosophers' logic so that they could be answered in their own terms.مِعْيَارُ العِلْمِ فِي فَنِّ المَنْطِقِ
6th/12th century
- al-Mustaṣfā: the logic prolegomenonal-Ghazālī · d. 505/1111 · TreatiseAl-Mustaṣfā, written in 503/1109, is al-Ghazālī's last work on uṣūl al-fiqh, and it opens with a summary of logic: definition, the syllogism and the conditions of proof.المُسْتَصْفَى مِنْ عِلْمِ الأُصُولِ
- al-Qisṭās al-mustaqīmal-Ghazālī · d. 505/1111 · TreatiseThe Correct Balance is a dialogue in which al-Ghazālī answers an adherent of the Ismāʿīlī doctrine of authoritative teaching (taʿlīm) on how true knowledge is to be weighed.القِسْطَاسُ المُسْتَقِيمُ
- Taʿālīq Ibn Bājja ʿalā manṭiq al-FārābīIbn Bājja · d. 533/1139 · GlossIbn Bājja (Avempace) wrote glosses on a large part of al-Fārābī's logical corpus: his Īsāghūjī and al-Fuṣūl al-khamsa, the Categories, De interpretatione, the Analytics and the Burhān.تَعَالِيقُ ابْنِ بَاجَّةَ عَلَى مَنْطِقِ الفَارَابِيِّ
- al-Baṣāʾir al-NaṣīriyyaʿUmar b. Sahlān al-Sāwī · d. c. 540/1145 · HandbookAl-Sāwī's Insights for Naṣīr al-Dīn is a concise and well-ordered manual of Avicennan logic, dedicated to Naṣīr al-Dīn Maḥmūd b.البَصَائِرُ النَّصِيرِيَّةُ فِي عِلْمِ المَنْطِقِ
- Kitāb al-Muʿtabar (logic)Abū al-Barakāt al-Baghdādī · d. 547/1152 · Part of a larger workThe Book of What Has Been Established by Personal Reflection follows the plan of Ibn Sīnā's Shifāʾ in three books, logic, natural philosophy and metaphysics, but tests each received doctrine against the author's own reasoning.كِتَابُ المُعْتَبَرِ فِي الحِكْمَةِ
- Ḥikmat al-ishrāq (logic)al-Suhrawardī · d. 587/1191 · TreatiseThe Philosophy of Illumination, completed in 1186, opens with a part on the 'rules of thought' (§§7–106), which sets out al-Suhrawardī's reform of logic before the ontology of light in the second part.حِكْمَةُ الإِشْرَاقِ
- al-Ḍarūrī fī al-manṭiqIbn Rushd · d. 595/1198 · HandbookThe Compendium on Logic, dated 1157, is one of Ibn Rushd's earliest works: a short summary that runs through the whole extended Organon, including Porphyry's Isagoge and, as was usual in Arabic, the Rhetoric and the Poetics.الضَّرُورِيُّ فِي المَنْطِقِ
- Talkhīṣ manṭiq ArisṭūIbn Rushd · d. 595/1198 · CommentaryIbn Rushd's middle commentaries (paraphrases) cover the whole Organon: the Categories (c.تَلْخِيصُ مَنْطِقِ أَرِسْطُو
- Manṭiq al-MulakhkhaṣFakhr al-Dīn al-Rāzī · d. 606/1210 · HandbookAl-Mulakhkhaṣ (The Compendium) is al-Rāzī's summa of philosophy, and its logic part is one of the founding texts of post-Avicennan logic.المُلَخَّصُ فِي الحِكْمَةِ وَالمَنْطِقِ
- Sharḥ al-Ishārāt wa-l-tanbīhātFakhr al-Dīn al-Rāzī · d. 606/1210 · CommentaryAl-Rāzī's commentary on Ibn Sīnā's Pointers and Reminders is a critical reading that raises objections to Ibn Sīnā's doctrines, in logic as elsewhere, alongside its explanations; he also wrote an abridgement of the Ishārāt, Lubāb al-Ishārāt.شَرْحُ الإِشَارَاتِ وَالتَّنْبِيهَاتِ
7th/13th century
- al-Jumalal-Khūnajī · d. 646/1248 · HandbookA very short summary of the principles and rules of logic — 'four leaves', in Ibn Khaldūn's words — which, he says, the students of his own time used and profited from.الجُمَلُ
- al-Mūjaz fī al-manṭiqal-Khūnajī · d. 646/1248 · HandbookA short handbook of logic by al-Khūnajī, the middle one of his three logic works.المُوجَزُ فِي المَنْطِقِ
- Kashf al-asrāral-Khūnajī · d. 646/1248 · TreatiseAl-Khūnajī's largest work on logic, a summa that may have been written as early as the 1220s.كَشْفُ الأَسْرَارِ عَنْ غَوَامِضِ الأَفْكَارِ
One of the six handbooksĪsāghūjīal-Abharī · d. 663/1265 · 241 worksA treatise of little more than a thousand words that covers the whole of logic. For more than six centuries it was the first logic book of the madrasa, from Istanbul and Cairo to Delhi and Java.إِيساغُوجِي- Hidāyat al-ḥikmaal-Abharī · d. 663/1265 · Part of a larger workA short handbook of philosophy in three parts — logic, natural philosophy and metaphysics — which, like the Īsāghūjī, was read as a madrasa textbook for centuries.هِدَايَةُ الحِكْمَةِ
- Kashf al-ḥaqāʾiqal-Abharī · d. 663/1265 · Part of a larger workAl-Abharī's most voluminous work, covering logic, metaphysics and physics in that unusual order (his Hidāyat al-ḥikma follows the order of Ibn Sīnā's Ishārāt: logic, physics, metaphysics); a copy dated 663/1264 is in the Süleymaniye Library (Ayasofya 2453).كَشْفُ الحَقَائِقِ فِي تَحْرِيرِ الدَّقَائِقِ
- Tanzīl al-afkāral-Abharī · d. 663/1265 · TreatiseA large work by the author of the Īsāghūjī in which he set out its logic, followed by metaphysics and physics, and explored new paths: it adopts several of al-Khūnajī's positions, including his 'essentialist' reading of propositions, without naming him.تَنْزِيلُ الأَفْكَارِ فِي تَعْدِيلِ الأَسْرَارِ
- Asās al-iqtibāsNaṣīr al-Dīn al-Ṭūsī · d. 672/1274 · Treatise · PersianA large treatise on logic written in Persian by al-Ṭūsī, who, unlike al-Khūnajī and his followers, remained committed to Ibn Sīnā's logic.أَسَاسُ الاقْتِبَاسِ
- Ḥall mushkilāt al-IshārātNaṣīr al-Dīn al-Ṭūsī · d. 672/1274 · CommentaryAl-Ṭūsī's commentary on Ibn Sīnā's Pointers and Reminders, finished in Ṣafar 644/1246 while he lived in the Ismāʿīlī fortresses.حَلُّ مُشْكِلَاتِ الإِشَارَاتِ
- Tajrīd al-manṭiqNaṣīr al-Dīn al-Ṭūsī · d. 672/1274 · HandbookA short, non-polemical Arabic exposition of logic by al-Ṭūsī; some sources describe it as the logic section of his Tajrīd al-iʿtiqād.تَجْرِيدُ المَنْطِقِ
One of the six handbooksal-Risāla al-Shamsiyyaal-Kātibī · d. 675/1276 · 90 worksAl-Kātibī’s compact handbook of the whole of logic, read with Quṭb al-Dīn al-Rāzī’s commentary and al-Jurjānī’s gloss in the higher classes of the Ottoman, Iranian and Indian madrasas.الرِّسالَةُ الشَّمْسِيَّة- Jāmiʿ al-daqāʾiqal-Kātibī · d. 675/1277 · Part of a larger workAl-Kātibī's advanced work on logic and metaphysics, written after 1265; its logic part is much longer than the Shamsiyya.جَامِعُ الدَّقَائِقِ فِي كَشْفِ الحَقَائِقِ
- Maṭāliʿ al-anwāral-Urmawī · d. 682/1283 · HandbookA handbook of logic by the Konya judge Sirāj al-Dīn al-Urmawī.مَطَالِعُ الأَنْوَارِ
- al-Jadīd fī al-ḥikmaIbn Kammūna · d. 683/1284 · Part of a larger workThe main philosophical work of ʿIzz al-Dawla Ibn Kammūna, a Jewish philosopher of Baghdad who wrote within the Avicennian and Illuminationist traditions.الجَدِيدُ فِي الحِكْمَةِ
- Qisṭās al-afkārShams al-Dīn al-Samarqandī · d. 702/1303 · HandbookA systematic handbook of logic built on the division into conceptions and assents, which cites al-Fārābī, Ibn Sīnā, al-Ghazālī, Fakhr al-Dīn al-Rāzī, Abū al-Barakāt and al-Abharī and does not hesitate to criticise them.قِسْطَاسُ الأَفْكَارِ فِي تَحْقِيقِ الأَسْرَارِ
- al-Qawāʿid al-jaliyyaal-ʿAllāma al-Ḥillī · d. 726/1325 · CommentaryThe first commentary on al-Kātibī's Shamsiyya, by al-Kātibī's own student al-Ḥillī; a manuscript survives from 1280, so it was written in or just after al-Kātibī's lifetime.القَوَاعِدُ الجَلِيَّةُ فِي شَرْحِ الرِّسَالَةِ الشَّمْسِيَّةِ
8th/14th century
- Durrat al-tājQuṭb al-Dīn al-Shīrāzī · d. 710/1311 · Part of a larger work · PersianA Persian encyclopaedia of philosophy and the sciences, completed in 705/1305, in five parts covering logic, philosophy, the natural sciences with geometry, astronomy, arithmetic and music, and the divine sciences.دُرَّةُ التَّاجِ
- al-Jawhar al-naḍīdal-ʿAllāma al-Ḥillī · d. 726/1325 · CommentaryAl-Ḥillī's commentary on al-Ṭūsī's Tajrīd al-manṭiq, quoting the text sentence by sentence in nine chapters from the universals to poetics.الجَوْهَرُ النَّضِيدُ فِي شَرْحِ مَنْطِقِ التَّجْرِيدِ
- al-Radd ʿalā al-manṭiqiyyīnIbn Taymiyya · d. 728/1328 · CritiqueIbn Taymiyya's critique of Aristotelian logic and of the Muslim thinkers who used it, written, by his own account, after a visit from a group of philosophers while he was imprisoned in Alexandria.الرَّدُّ عَلَى المَنْطِقِيِّينَ
- Sharḥ Īsāghūjī (al-Kātī)al-Kātī · d. 760/1359 · CommentaryḤusām al-Dīn al-Kātī's commentary on al-Abharī's Īsāghūjī, one of the most popular ever written on it.شَرْحُ إِيسَاغُوجِي
- al-Risāla fī al-taṣawwur wa-l-taṣdīqQuṭb al-Dīn al-Rāzī · d. 766/1365 · TreatiseA short treatise on whether conception (taṣawwur) and assent (taṣdīq) each constitute knowledge on their own — the question with which every logic handbook opens.الرِّسَالَةُ المَعْمُولَةُ فِي التَّصَوُّرِ وَالتَّصْدِيقِ
- Lawāmiʿ al-asrārQuṭb al-Dīn al-Rāzī · d. 766/1365 · CommentaryQuṭb al-Dīn al-Rāzī's broad commentary on al-Urmawī's Maṭāliʿ al-anwār, dedicated to the vizier Ghiyāth al-Dīn Muḥammad, son of Rashīd al-Dīn.لَوَامِعُ الأَسْرَارِ فِي شَرْحِ مَطَالِعِ الأَنْوَارِ
- Taḥrīr al-qawāʿid al-manṭiqiyya (al-Quṭbī)Quṭb al-Dīn al-Rāzī · d. 766/1365 · CommentaryThe commentary with which the Shamsiyya was most commonly read, finished in 1329 by al-Ḥillī's student Quṭb al-Dīn al-Rāzī al-Taḥtānī.تَحْرِيرُ القَوَاعِدِ المَنْطِقِيَّةِ فِي شَرْحِ الرِّسَالَةِ الشَّمْسِيَّةِ
One of the six handbooksTahdhīb al-manṭiqal-Taftāzānī · d. 792/1390 · 94 worksAl-Taftāzānī’s concise handbook of logic and kalām; its logic part, read with al-Yazdī’s commentary, became a standard text in Iran and South Asia.تَهْذِيبُ المَنْطِق- Sharḥ al-Shamsiyya (al-Saʿdiyya)al-Taftāzānī · d. 792/1390 · CommentaryAl-Taftāzānī's commentary on the Shamsiyya; the TDV describes it as covering the first part, on conceptions (taṣawwurāt).شَرْحُ الرِّسَالَةِ الشَّمْسِيَّةِ
- al-Mukhtaṣar fī al-manṭiqIbn ʿArafa · d. 803/1401 · HandbookA short handbook of logic by Ibn ʿArafa al-Warghammī, who headed the Zaytūna mosque-university of Tunis; it is published in a modern edition together with al-Khūnajī's al-Jumal, the text his North African readers already knew.المُخْتَصَرُ فِي المَنْطِقِ
- al-Muqaddima: the chapter on logicIbn Khaldūn · d. 808/1406 · TreatiseIn the sixth chapter of his Muqaddima, on the sciences, Ibn Khaldūn gives a short account of logic and its history.المُقَدِّمَةُ
- Ḥāshiya ʿalā Lawāmiʿ al-asrāral-Sayyid al-Sharīf al-Jurjānī · d. 816/1413 · GlossAl-Jurjānī's gloss on Quṭb al-Dīn al-Rāzī's commentary on al-Urmawī's Maṭāliʿ al-anwār, the work with which he first made his name as a young scholar.حَاشِيَةٌ عَلَى لَوَامِعِ الأَسْرَارِ
- Ḥāshiya ʿalā Sharḥ al-Shamsiyyaal-Sayyid al-Sharīf al-Jurjānī · d. 816/1413 · GlossAl-Jurjānī's gloss on Quṭb al-Dīn al-Rāzī's commentary on the Shamsiyya.حَاشِيَةٌ عَلَى شَرْحِ الشَّمْسِيَّةِ
- Ṣughrā and Kubrāal-Sayyid al-Sharīf al-Jurjānī · d. 816/1413 · Handbook · PersianTwo Persian introductions to logic ascribed to al-Jurjānī: the Ṣughrā, a short introductory handbook, and the longer Kubrā, which says more than the Īsāghūjī on the division of knowledge into conception and assent and attracted commentaries and versifications.الصُّغْرَى وَالكُبْرَى
9th/15th century
- al-Fawāʾid al-Fanāriyyaal-Fanārī · d. 834/1431 · CommentaryShams al-Dīn al-Fanārī's commentary on al-Abharī's Īsāghūjī, which, he boasted, he wrote in a single day — and a short winter's day at that.الفَوَائِدُ الفَنَارِيَّةُ
- al-Mukhtaṣar fī ʿilm al-manṭiqal-Sanūsī · d. 895/1490 · HandbookA short handbook of logic by the Tlemcen theologian Muḥammad b.المُخْتَصَرُ فِي عِلْمِ المَنْطِقِ
- Sharḥ Tahdhīb al-manṭiq (Mullā Jalāl)al-Dawānī · d. 908/1502 · CommentaryJalāl al-Dīn al-Dawānī's commentary on the logic part of al-Taftāzānī's Tahdhīb, left unfinished: it goes only as far as the simple modal propositions.شَرْحُ تَهْذِيبِ المَنْطِقِ
- Ṣawn al-manṭiq wa-l-kalāmal-Suyūṭī · d. 911/1505 · CritiqueAl-Suyūṭī first abridged Ibn Taymiyya's refutation of the logicians as Jahd al-qarīḥa fī tajrīd al-Naṣīḥa and then expanded that abridgement into this work against logic and kalām.صَوْنُ المَنْطِقِ وَالكَلَامِ عَنْ فَنَّيِ المَنْطِقِ وَالكَلَامِ
10th/16th century
- Ḥāshiya ʿalā Ḥāshiyat KūchakQara Dāwūd · d. 948/1541 · GlossA super-gloss on the shorter (‘small’, Kūchak) gloss of al-Sayyid al-Sharīf al-Jurjānī on Quṭb al-Dīn al-Rāzī’s Taḥrīr al-qawāʿid al-manṭiqiyya, the standard commentary on al-Kātibī’s Shamsiyya; it is also called a gloss on Sharḥ al-Shamsiyya.حَاشِيَةٌ عَلَى حَاشِيَةِ كُوجَكْ عَلَى تَحْرِيرِ القَوَاعِدِ المَنْطِقِيَّةِ
- Sharḥ al-Sullamal-Akhḍarī · d. 983/1575–76 (also given as 953/1546) · CommentaryThe prose commentary that al-Akhḍarī wrote on his own rajaz poem al-Sullam al-munawraq; TDV notes that the first commentary on the Sullam was by the poet himself.شَرْحُ السُّلَّمِ المُرَوْنَقِ
One of the six handbooksal-Sullam al-munawraqal-Akhḍarī · d. 983/1575 · 79 worksAl-Akhḍarī’s rajaz poem on logic, a versified Īsāghūjī memorised across North and West Africa, Egypt and Southeast Asia.السُّلَّمُ المُنَوْرَق- al-Ḥāshiya ʿalā Tahdhīb al-manṭiqMullā ʿAbd Allāh al-Yazdī · d. 981/1573 (Brockelmann: 1015/1606) · CommentaryA commentary on the logic part of al-Taftāzānī’s Tahdhīb al-manṭiq, completed at Najaf in 967/1560 and known simply as ‘Ḥāshiya-yi Mullā ʿAbd Allāh’.الحَاشِيَةُ عَلَى تَهْذِيبِ المَنْطِقِ
11th/17th century
- al-Tanqīḥ fī al-manṭiqMullā Ṣadrā · d. 1050/1640 · HandbookA short Arabic compendium of logic by Ṣadr al-Dīn al-Shīrāzī, the founder of the ‘transcendent philosophy’ (al-ḥikma al-mutaʿāliya).التَّنْقِيحُ فِي المَنْطِقِ
- Risāla fī al-taṣawwur wa-l-taṣdīqMullā Ṣadrā · d. 1050/1640 · TreatiseA short treatise by Ṣadr al-Dīn al-Shīrāzī on the division of knowledge into conception (taṣawwur) and assent (taṣdīq), the question with which every manṭiq handbook opens.رِسَالَةٌ فِي التَّصَوُّرِ وَالتَّصْدِيقِ
- Ḥāshiya ʿalā Mīr Quṭbīal-Siyālkūtī · d. 1067/1657 · GlossA super-gloss by the Mughal scholar ʿAbd al-Ḥakīm al-Siyālkūtī on al-Sayyid al-Sharīf al-Jurjānī’s gloss on Quṭb al-Dīn al-Rāzī’s commentary on the Shamsiyya; it is also known as Ḥāshiya ʿalā al-Kubrā or ‘ʿAbd al-Ḥakīm on Mīr Quṭbī’.حَاشِيَةٌ عَلَى مِيرْ قُطْبِي
- Mīr Zāhid Mullā JalālMīr Zāhid al-Harawī · d. 1101/1689–90 · GlossA gloss by Mīr Zāhid on Jalāl al-Dīn al-Dawānī’s commentary on al-Taftāzānī’s Tahdhīb al-manṭiq, a commentary known in India as ‘Mullā Jalāl’ and left unfinished by its author.حَاشِيَةُ مِيرْ زَاهِدٍ عَلَى شَرْحِ التَّهْذِيبِ لِلدَّوَانِيِّ
- Mīr Zāhid RisālaMīr Zāhid al-Harawī · d. 1101/1689–90 · GlossMīr Zāhid’s commentary-gloss on Quṭb al-Dīn al-Rāzī’s treatise on conception and assent, which asks whether conception and assent are separate kinds of knowledge and what assent consists of.حَاشِيَةُ مِيرْ زَاهِدٍ عَلَى الرِّسَالَةِ القُطْبِيَّةِ
12th/18th century
One of the six handbooksSullam al-ʿulūmMuḥibb Allāh al-Bihārī · d. 1119/1707 · 87 worksMuḥibb Allāh al-Bihārī’s demanding handbook, the summit of logic in the Dars-i Niẓāmī, read through a whole tradition of commentaries.سُلَّمُ العُلُوم- al-Risāla al-WaladiyyaSaçaklızâde · d. 1145/1732 · TreatiseA short handbook of ādāb al-baḥth wa-l-munāẓara, the art of disputation that was taught beside logic in the Ottoman madrasa.الرِّسَالَةُ الوَلَدِيَّةُ
- Sharḥ Sullam al-ʿulūm (Ḥamd Allāh)Ḥamd Allāh al-Sandīlawī · d. 1160/1747 · CommentaryA commentary on the second half of Sullam al-ʿulūm, the part on assents (taṣdīqāt), known in the madrasas as ‘Ḥamd Allāh’.شَرْحُ سُلَّمِ العُلُومِ
- Sharḥ Sullam al-ʿulūm (Qāḍī Mubārak)Qāḍī Mubārak · d. 1162/1749 · CommentaryThe first of the great commentaries on Muḥibb Allāh al-Bihārī’s Sullam al-ʿulūm, known in the madrasas simply as ‘Qāḍī Mubārak’ or ‘al-Qāḍī’, with the author’s own notes (Minhuyāt).شَرْحُ سُلَّمِ العُلُومِ
- al-Sharḥ al-ṣaghīr ʿalā al-Sullamal-Mallawī · d. 1181/1767 · CommentaryAḥmad al-Mallawī wrote two commentaries on al-Akhḍarī’s Sullam, a large and a small one; according to Dār al-Iftāʾ al-Miṣriyya the small one was especially well received and for decades was a mainstay of teaching at al-Azhar and other institutions.الشَّرْحُ الصَّغِيرُ عَلَى السُّلَّمِ
- Īḍāḥ al-mubham min maʿānī al-Sullamal-Damanhūrī · d. 1192/1778 · CommentaryA short commentary on al-Akhḍarī’s Sullam by the Azhar scholar Aḥmad al-Damanhūrī, which TDV calls the most famous of its commentaries.إِيضَاحُ المُبْهَمِ مِنْ مَعَانِي السُّلَّمِ
- Sharḥ Sullam al-ʿulūm (Mullā Ḥasan)Mullā Ḥasan · d. 1199/1784 · CommentaryA commentary on the first half of Sullam al-ʿulūm, the part on conceptions (taṣawwurāt), by Mullā Muḥammad Ḥasan of the Farangī Maḥall family of Lucknow; it is known in the madrasas as ‘Mullā Ḥasan’.شَرْحُ سُلَّمِ العُلُومِ
- al-Burhānal-Kalanbawī · d. 1205/1791 · HandbookAn independent handbook of logic by the Ottoman logician and mathematician Ismāʿīl al-Kalanbawī (Gelenbevî), which TDV counts among the rare works of classical logic composed in the eighteenth century.البُرْهَانُ فِي عِلْمِ المَنْطِقِ وَفَنِّ المِيزَانِ
- Ḥāshiyat al-Ṣabbān ʿalā Sharḥ al-Mallawīal-Ṣabbān · d. 1206/1792 · GlossA gloss by the Cairene scholar Muḥammad b.حَاشِيَةُ الصَّبَّانِ عَلَى شَرْحِ المَلَّوِيِّ عَلَى السُّلَّمِ
- Sharḥ al-Bannānī ʿalā al-Sullamal-Bannānī · d. 1194/1780 or c. 1211/1796 (sources differ) · CommentaryA Moroccan commentary on al-Akhḍarī’s Sullam by Muḥammad al-Bannānī of Fez.شَرْحُ البَنَّانِيِّ عَلَى السُّلَّمِ
- Sharḥ Sullam al-ʿulūm (Baḥr al-ʿUlūm)Baḥr al-ʿUlūm · d. 1225/1810 · CommentaryA commentary on Sullam al-ʿulūm by ʿAbd al-ʿAlī Baḥr al-ʿUlūm, son of Mullā Niẓām al-Dīn, the founder of the Dars-i Niẓāmī, written in the author’s youth.شَرْحُ سُلَّمِ العُلُومِ
- Mirʾāt al-shurūḥMullā Mubīn · d. 1225/1810 · CommentaryA full commentary on Sullam al-ʿulūm by Mullā Mubīn of Lucknow, which, as its title (‘the mirror of the commentaries’) says, reflects the debates of the earlier commentators.مِرْآةُ الشُّرُوحِ
13th/19th century
One of the six handbooksal-MirqātFaḍl-i Imām Khayrābādī · d. 1243/1828 · 34 worksThe short logic text of the Khayrābādī school, read in South Asian madrasas between the Īsāghūjī and Sharḥ al-Tahdhīb.المِرْقاة- Ḥāshiyat al-ʿAṭṭār ʿalā Sharḥ al-KhabīṣīḤasan al-ʿAṭṭār · d. 1250/1834 · GlossA gloss by Ḥasan al-ʿAṭṭār, later Shaykh al-Azhar, on ʿUbayd Allāh al-Khabīṣī’s al-Tadhhīb, the commentary through which al-Taftāzānī’s Tahdhīb al-manṭiq was usually read in Egypt.حَاشِيَةُ العَطَّارِ عَلَى شَرْحِ الخَبِيصِيِّ عَلَى التَّهْذِيبِ
- Sharḥ al-Quwaysinī ʿalā al-Sullamal-Quwaysinī · d. 1254/1838 (also given as 1255/1839) · CommentaryA commentary on al-Akhḍarī’s Sullam by Ḥasan b.شَرْحُ القُوَيْسِنِيِّ عَلَى السُّلَّمِ
- Ḥāshiyat al-Bājūrī ʿalā matn al-Sullamal-Bājūrī · d. 1276/1860 (also given as 1277/1861) · GlossA gloss written directly on the text of al-Akhḍarī’s Sullam by Ibrāhīm al-Bājūrī, Shaykh al-Azhar.حَاشِيَةُ البَاجُورِيِّ عَلَى مَتْنِ السُّلَّمِ
- al-Laʾālī al-muntaẓamaSabzawārī · d. 1289/1872 (also given as 1878) · VerseThe logic part of Mullā Hādī Sabzawārī’s didactic poem (manẓūma), with his own commentary; the second part, Ghurar al-farāʾid, covers philosophy, and the two together with the commentary are known as Sharḥ al-Manẓūma.اللَّآلِئُ المُنْتَظَمَةُ
- Miʿyār-ı SedādAhmed Cevdet Paşa · d. 1312/1895 · Handbook · Ottoman TurkishA short logic textbook in Ottoman Turkish that the statesman and scholar Ahmed Cevdet Paşa wrote for his son Ali Sedad, after whom it is named; TDV calls it the first Turkish logic book written in the traditional manner.مِعْيَارِ سَدَادْ
14th/20th century
- Qızıl ĪjāzSaid Nursi · d. 1379/1960 · CommentaryA very concise Arabic commentary on al-Akhḍarī’s Sullam by Bediüzzaman Said Nursi, from the period before his Risale-i Nur.قِزِلْ إِيجَازْ
- al-Manṭiqal-Muẓaffar · d. 1383/1964 · Modern textbookA modern handbook of logic by the Najaf reformer Muḥammad Riḍā al-Muẓaffar, based on the lectures he gave from 1357/1938–39 at the Muntadā al-Nashr college.المَنْطِقُ
- Ḍawābiṭ al-maʿrifaḤabannaka al-Maydānī · d. 1425/2004 · Modern textbookA modern Arabic handbook by the Damascene scholar ʿAbd al-Raḥmān Ḥasan Ḥabannaka al-Maydānī, who taught for about thirty years at Umm al-Qurā University in Mecca.ضَوَابِطُ المَعْرِفَةِ وَأُصُولُ الِاسْتِدْلَالِ وَالمُنَاظَرَةِ
- ʿIlm al-manṭiqMuhammad Nur al-Ibrahimi · Modern textbookAn Arabic textbook of logic written in 1927 for the Arabic madrasas and religious institutes of Indonesia.عِلْمُ المَنْطِقِ لِلْمَدَارِسِ العَرَبِيَّةِ وَالمَعَاهِدِ الدِّينِيَّةِ بِإِنْدُونِيسِيَا
- Taysīr al-manṭiqMuḥammad ʿAbd Allāh Gangohī · Handbook · UrduA short Urdu primer of logic by Muḥammad ʿAbd Allāh Gangohī, sold today as a logic text of the Dars-i Niẓāmī course.تَيْسِيرُ المَنْطِقِ