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Indian path, level 2: al-Mirqāt

After al-Jurjānī's two primers, read al-Mirqāt of Faḍl-i Imām Khayrābādī, the short logic text of the Dars-i Niẓāmī, lesson by lesson: the Arabic text with a translation, and a short test.

Indian path · level 2 · 25 lessons

al-Mirqāt Faḍl-i Imām Khayrābādī

المِرْقاة

Arabic text after the print of Deoband after 1336/1917 · translation by The Mantiqi, draft

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al-Mirqāt المِرْقاة

Faḍl-i Imām Khayrābādī (d. 1243 or 1244/1828–29)

Text: Arabic: al-Mirqāt, with al-Shīrkūtī's gloss al-Mirʾāt (gloss not reproduced), checked against the Delhi print of 1286/1869 (Sayyid al-Maṭābiʿ); vowel marks added by The Mantiqi (draft), Kutub Khāna Iʿzāziyya, Deoband after 1336/1917 View the scan
Translation: The Mantiqi's own; a draft.
Review: Draft, awaiting review by Ustadh Muhammad Yusuf.

The opening: knowledge, conception and assent Up next
Logic: its founder, definition, subject and aim Up next
Signification Up next
The simple utterance and its kinds Up next
The composite utterance Up next
Particular and universal, and the relations between universals Up next
Genus and species, and how they are ordered Up next
Differentia, proprium, common accident Up next
Definitions Up next
The proposition: kinds, parts and quantity Up next
Predication, further divisions and modal propositions Up next
Composite modal propositions Up next
Conditional propositions Up next
Contradiction Up next
Conversion and contraposition Up next
The syllogism and the first figure Up next
The second, third and fourth figures Up next
Conditional and exceptive syllogisms Up next
Induction, analogy, reductio, matter and form Up next
Demonstration Up next
Dialectic, rhetoric, poetics and sophistry Up next
The causes of error Up next
Fallacies in the meaning Up next
A puzzle Up next
Closing: the parts of a science and the eight headings Up next

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