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إِيساغُوجِي

Ottoman path, level 1: the Īsāghūjī

Al-Abharī's Īsāghūjī, the matn, term by term in the order of the text: every term with its Arabic, a plain explanation and a short test.

Arabic text after the print of Jakarta 1434/2013 · translation by The Mantiqi, draft

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Īsāghūjī إِيسَاغُوجِي

Athīr al-Dīn al-Abharī (d. 663/1265)

Text
Arabic, vocalised as in the print: Mutūn al-manṭiq wa-l-ḥikma: Īsāghūjī wa-l-Sullam al-munawraq, ʿAlawī Abū Bakr Muḥammad al-Saqqāf (ḍabṭ wa-taʿlīq), Jakarta: Dār al-Kutub al-Islāmiyya 1434/2013
Translation
The Mantiqi's own; a draft.
Review
Draft, awaiting review by Ustadh Muhammad Yusuf.
  • 48 terms
  • 6 chapters
  • 3 parts

Introduction (al-muqaddima)

Introduction

Introduction المُقَدِّمَة

What logic is, and why knowledge divides into conception and assent.

المُقَدِّمَة

Conceptions (al-taṣawwurāt)

Part I

Conceptions التَّصَوُّرَات

How we grasp a meaning: utterances, universals and definition, leading to the defining statement (al-qawl al-shāriḥ).

التَّصَوُّرَات

Chapter 1 · Utterances and signification

الأَلْفَاظ وَالدَّلَالَة

Chapter 2 · The five universals

الكُلِّيَّات الخَمْس

Chapter 3 · Definition

التَّعْرِيف

Assents (al-taṣdīqāt)

Part II

Assents التَّصْدِيقَات

How we judge something true or false: propositions and argument, leading to the proof (al-ḥujja).

التَّصْدِيقَات

The five arts (al-ṣināʿāt al-khams)

Part III

The five arts الصِّنَاعَات الخَمْس

Arguments judged by the matter of their premises: from demonstration, which yields certainty, to sophistry, which only seems to.

الصِّنَاعَات الخَمْس