Maqāṣid al-falāsifa (logic)

The 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. It belongs to al-Ghazālī's engagement with philosophy around 1095, and its introduction and closing words, which present it as a preparation for the Tahāfut, were probably added later. Its logic is a clear Avicennan primer of terms, propositions, syllogism and demonstration. Translated into Latin in the twelfth century as the Logica et philosophia Algazelis, and also into Hebrew, it was taken by Latin readers as a statement of Avicenna's teaching and became one of the most widely read introductions to Arabic logic in Europe.

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