A 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.
- Full title
- al-Risāla al-Athīriyya fī al-manṭiq
- Author
- al-Abharī
- Died
- 663/1265
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Articles
مَقالات
- 1The word ĪsāghūjīĪsāghūjī is the Greek word eisagōgē, ‘introduction’, written in Arabic letters. In Arabic it came to name three things: Porphyry’s book, …
- 2Porphyry’s IsagogeAround the year 270 the Neoplatonist Porphyry wrote a short Introduction (Eisagōgē) to Aristotle’s Categories, explaining five terms: …
- 3How the Isagoge travelledFrom the Greek schools of Alexandria, Porphyry’s Introduction passed into Syriac and then Arabic. Arabic philosophers first translated and …
- 4Al-Abharī’s ĪsāghūjīA treatise of little more than a thousand words that covers the whole of logic, from the signification of words to demonstration. Written …
- 5The commentary traditionFor more than six centuries the Īsāghūjī was not read alone but through commentaries, glosses on those commentaries and verse versions. …
- 6The Īsāghūjī in the madrasaFor centuries the Īsāghūjī, or its verse version the Sullam, was the first logic book a student read, from Ottoman Istanbul and al-Azhar to …
- 7Scholars on studying logicShould a Muslim scholar study logic? Al-Ghazālī said every scholar needs it; Ibn al-Ṣalāḥ and al-Nawawī are reported to have forbidden it; …
- 8Editions and translationsThe Īsāghūjī survives in a great many manuscripts, was first printed in Rome in 1625, and has been printed countless times since in …
Commentaries
الشُّرُوح والحَواشِي
The commentaries most read in the madrasas, with the glosses written on them.
commentary · 816/1413
al-Sayyid al-Sharīf al-Jurjānī
Mīr Īsāghūjī (attributed)
gloss: ʿImād al-Fārisī, ʿAlī al-ʿAjamī, ʿIṣām al-Dīn
commentary · 834/1431
al-Fawāʾid al-Fanāriyya (Sharḥ Īsāghūjī)
gloss: Qul Aḥmad, Eyyûbîzâde Mustafa, Burhān al-Dīn al-Bulghārī
commentary · 926/1520
Shaykh al-Islām Zakariyyā al-Anṣārī
al-Maṭlaʿ (Sharḥ Īsāghūjī)
gloss: Shihāb al-Dīn al-Ramlī, al-Qalyūbī, al-Mallawī
Catalogue
الفِهْرِس
Everything written on this book that we could trace, with editions and sources.
Open the catalogue (241)| Commentaries (sharḥ) | 76 |
| Glosses (ḥāshiya) | 82 |
| Notes, verse forms and other works | 33 |
| Translations | 23 |
| Modern studies | 27 |
Scholars
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