The short logic text of the Khayrābādī school, read in South Asian madrasas between the Īsāghūjī and Sharḥ al-Tahdhīb.
- Full title
- al-Mirqāt fī al-manṭiq
- Author
- Faḍl-i Imām Khayrābādī
- Died
- 1243/1828
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Articles
مَقالات
- 1Al-Mirqāt: the bookAl-Mirqāt (‘the ladder’) is a short Arabic handbook of logic written in North India in the early nineteenth century by Faḍl-i Imām …
- 2The author: Faḍl-i Imām KhayrābādīFaḍl-i Imām (d. 1243/1828 or 1244/1829) was a logician from the small Awadh town of Khayrābād who spent his career as a senior legal …
- 3The Khayrābādī schoolThe ‘Khayrābādīs’ were a family of scholars and their students who, from Faḍl-i Imām onwards, made logic and philosophy (the maʿqūlāt) …
- 4Al-Mirqāt among the logic handbooksAl-Mirqāt was written for a course that already had its classic logic texts. This article looks at what it draws on, how it compares with …
- 5Al-Mirqāt in the madrasaAl-Mirqāt was not part of the original Dars-i Niẓāmī, but in the century after its author’s death it became one of the first logic books of …
- 6Commentaries, glosses and translationsLike every madrasa text, al-Mirqāt was read with a commentary. This article describes the main works on it: ʿAbd al-Ḥaqq Khayrābādī’s …
- 7Editions of al-MirqātAl-Mirqāt has been printed continuously since the 1860s, first as Indian lithographs with marginal glosses and today as vocalised Pakistani …
- 8Views on al-Mirqāt and on logic in IndiaAl-Mirqāt has been praised by its commentators and taught across the divides of South Asian Islam, while the place of logic and philosophy …
Commentaries
الشُّرُوح والحَواشِي
The commentaries most read in the madrasas, with the glosses written on them.
Catalogue
الفِهْرِس
Everything written on this book that we could trace, with editions and sources.
Open the catalogue (34)| Commentaries (sharḥ) | 14 |
| Glosses (ḥāshiya) | 5 |
| Notes, verse forms and other works | 7 |
| Translations | 6 |
| Modern studies | 2 |
Scholars
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