The Mantiqi

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    Indian path, level 3: Tahdhīb al-manṭiq

    After al-Mirqāt, read al-Taftāzānī's Tahdhīb al-manṭiq, the matn behind the great madrasa commentaries, lesson by lesson: the Arabic text with a translation, and a short test. The commentaries on it — al-Yazdī's in India, al-Khabīṣī's in North Africa — follow it on later levels.

    Indian path · level 3 · 16 lessons

    Tahdhīb al-manṭiq Saʿd al-Dīn al-Taftāzānī

    تَهْذِيبُ المَنْطِقِ

    Arabic text after the print of Cairo 1330/1912 · translation by The Mantiqi, draft

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    Tahdhīb al-manṭiq تَهْذِيبُ المَنْطِقِ

    Saʿd al-Dīn al-Taftāzānī (d. 792/1390)

    Text
    Arabic: Matn Tahdhīb al-manṭiq wa-l-kalām (the logic part; the notes on the kalām part not reproduced), with notes collected by ʿAbd al-Qādir Maʿrūf al-Kurdī al-Sanandajī; vowel marks added by The Mantiqi (draft); two misprints corrected to the usual reading (p. 6 yalzamu taṣawwuruhu min taṣawwuri l-malzūm for the print's yalzamu min taṣawwurihi taṣawwuru l-malzūm; p. 13 al-fiṭriyyāt for al-naẓariyyāt), Maṭbaʿat al-Saʿāda, Cairo 1330/1912 View the scan
    Translation
    The Mantiqi's own; a draft.
    Review
    Draft, awaiting review by Ustadh Muhammad Yusuf.
    1. The opening: knowledge, the need for logic and its subject Up next
    2. Signification and the kinds of utterance Up next
    3. Universal and particular; the four relations Up next
    4. The five universals: genus and species Up next
    5. Differentia, property and accident; the three universals Up next
    6. The definer and its kinds Up next
    7. The proposition: categorical, quantity and existence Up next
    8. The modalities: the eight simple propositions Up next
    9. The compound modal propositions Up next
    10. The kinds of conditional Up next
    11. Contradiction Up next
    12. Simple conversion and contraposition Up next
    13. The syllogism, the four figures and the first Up next
    14. The second, third and fourth figures Up next
    15. Conditional and repetitive syllogisms, induction and analogy Up next
    16. The five arts and the parts of the sciences Up next

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