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حَلُّ مُشْكِلَاتِ الإِشَارَاتِ
Ḥall mushkilāt al-Ishārāt
Naṣīr al-Dīn al-Ṭūsī · d. 672/1274
Al-Ṭūsī's commentary on Ibn Sīnā's Pointers and Reminders, finished in Ṣafar 644/1246 while he lived in the Ismāʿīlī fortresses. It explains Ibn Sīnā's own views and defends them against the criticisms of Fakhr al-Dīn al-Rāzī; Quṭb al-Dīn al-Rāzī later adjudicated between the two commentaries in his Muḥākamāt. For a time the logic of the Ishārāt was read with this commentary, until the Shamsiyya replaced it: most copies of the Ishārāt and the commentary made after 1400 no longer contain the logic section. It is the main witness to the Avicennian side in the thirteenth-century debates.
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- Full title
- Ḥall mushkilāt al-Ishārāt (Sharḥ al-Ishārāt wa-l-tanbīhāt)
- Author
- Naṣīr al-Dīn al-Ṭūsī
- Died
- 672/1274
- Written
- 13th century
- Language
- Arabic
- Written on
- al-Ishārāt wa-l-tanbīhāt (logic)
Editions and translations
الطَّبَعات
- ed. Sulaymān Dunyā, Cairo: Dār al-Maʿārif, 1948–49 (and later reprints)
- Istanbul 1290; Lucknow 1293, 1297
- ed. Karīm Fayḍī, Qom 1383 Sh
Also by Naṣīr al-Dīn al-Ṭūsī
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