https://themantiqi.com/en/news/ New editions, translations, studies and events on manṭiq, classical logic in the Islamic scholarly tradition, and on its neighbouring sciences: kalām, falsafa, uṣūl al-fiqh, munāẓara, ʿilm al-waḍʿ, naḥw and balāgha. en https://dergipark.org.tr/tr/pub/mader/article/1896816 news-balli-yilis-review-evmes-maghnisawi-mughni Fri, 30 Oct 2026 12:00:00 GMT mantiq study Tuğba Ballı Yılış (review); Adem Evmeş (book). Volume 8 (2026) of Mantık Araştırmaları Dergisi carries a review of Adem Evmeş's study (Istanbul: Kitap Dünyası, 2023) of Maḥmūd b. Ḥasan al-Maghnīsāwī's logic. Its basis is Mughnī al-ṭullāb, al-Maghnīsāwī's commentary on al-Abharī's Īsāghūjī, one of the most widely read Īsāghūjī commentaries in Ottoman madrasas. https://www.nu.or.id/nasional/kader-ansor-tawarkan-ilmu-mantiq-untuk-menyaring-informasi-ai-dalam-mu-tamad-2026-di-lirboyo-26AWI news-lirboyo-mutamad-2026-ilmu-mantiq-ai Thu, 29 Oct 2026 12:00:00 GMT mantiq event Zaimuddin Ahya; Ma'had Aly Lirboyo (report by NU Online). At the international Mu'tamad 2026 forum of Ma'had Aly Lirboyo, Kediri (29–30 October), Zaimuddin Ahya presented a paper on reviving pesantren logic as a check on AI output. He proposed the madrasa categories of taṣawwur and taṣdīq, the proposition (qaḍiyya), premises and the syllogism (qiyās) as tools for students to test machine-generated claims, alongside checks against facts and sources. https://sana.sy/culture-and-arts/2611417/ news-zubaydi-farabi-and-grammar Mon, 19 Oct 2026 12:00:00 GMT lugha study Saʿīd Jāsim al-Zubaydī (University of Nizwa); Dār al-Fikr, Damascus / Dār al-Fikr al-Muʿāṣir, Beirut. A short book (96 pages), reviewed by the Syrian news agency SANA, asks whether Arabic grammar was subordinate to Aristotelian logic or whether the philosophers built an independent account of language. It studies al-Fārābī's terms for language, single and compound expressions, and the particles, including the interrogatives. The introduction by ʿAlī Faraj argues that the overlap of grammar and logic does not make grammar dependent on logic. https://yuz.uz/en/news/news-LgNN6h news-uzbekistan-ibn-sina-roadmap-2030 Mon, 19 Oct 2026 12:00:00 GMT falsafa event Cabinet of Ministers of Uzbekistan. Uzbek Government Resolution No. 575 sets out a programme up to the 1,050th anniversary of Ibn Sīnā's birth in 2030. It provides for a research centre in Bukhara, a digital platform, manuscript expeditions, and Uzbek translations of al-Ishārāt wa-l-tanbīhāt, the Dānishnāma, Kitāb al-Shifāʾ and the 'Eastern Philosophy'; the first three each contain a full logic. A Tashkent conference on Ibn Sīnā as a philosopher was planned for October 2026. https://www.damla.nl/ibn-haldun-universitesinde-argumantasyon-ve-catisma-calismalari-yuksek-lisans-programi-tanitildi/ news-ihu-qatardebate-argumentation-ma Tue, 13 Oct 2026 12:00:00 GMT munazara event İbn Haldun Üniversitesi; QatarDebate Center. Ibn Haldun University in Istanbul presented a master's programme in Argumentation and Conflict Studies, developed with the QatarDebate Center of Qatar Foundation and coordinated by Rahmi Oruç; the first intake is twelve international students. The rector said the programme will draw on the Ottoman tradition of ādāb al-baḥth wa-l-munāẓara, its history and its present uses, the discipline the madrasa taught as the applied sequel to manṭiq. https://dergipark.org.tr/tr/pub/tetkik/article/1934208 news-yurttas-ibn-al-banna-rawd-logic-rhetoric Wed, 30 Sep 2026 12:00:00 GMT mantiq study Tahsin Yurttaş, Muhammet Mücahit Asutay and Abdullah Hacıbekiroğlu. Article in Tetkik 10 on how the Maghribi mathematician Ibn al-Bannāʾ (d. 721/1321) built a treatise on badīʿ on logic. He classifies rhetorical figures by the three kinds of signification (muṭābaqa, taḍammun, iltizām), uses the Peripatetic ranking of the five arts, and reads syllogistic forms and figures through geometric proportion, aiming to make rhetoric a demonstrative discipline. https://dergipark.org.tr/tr/pub/eskiyeni/article/1928454 news-cetin-muhalli-shumus-irshad-yemen Wed, 30 Sep 2026 12:00:00 GMT kalam study Serkan Çetin (Sakarya Üniversitesi). Article in Eskiyeni 63 on the Zaydī theologian Ḥumayd b. Aḥmad al-Muḥallī's (d. 652/1254) refutation of al-Juwaynī's al-Irshād. Comparing the texts on five questions, it shows a two-way exchange: Zaydīs developed a systematic genre of refutation against the Ashʿarīs, while Ashʿarīs in Yemen drew on al-Juwaynī and al-Ghazālī. https://dergipark.org.tr/tr/pub/tetkik/article/1933981 news-sagirli-kilavuz-rassas-masail-hadawiyya-edition Wed, 30 Sep 2026 12:00:00 GMT kalam edition Yunus Emre Sağırlı and Ulvi Murat Kılavuz. First edition, from a single manuscript in the Great Mosque of Ṣanʿāʾ, of a treatise by the Yemeni Zaydī theologian Aḥmad b. al-Ḥasan al-Raṣṣāṣ (d. 621/1224). It distinguishes an essence (dhāt) from the properties (mazāyā) predicated of it, grounding the world's dependence on God in possibility (imkān); the modal and predicative vocabulary overlaps with the logicians' discussion of necessity and possibility. https://dergipark.org.tr/tr/pub/eskiyeni/article/1928360 news-tasci-onuk-ibn-sina-risala-arzaq Wed, 30 Sep 2026 12:00:00 GMT falsafa study Emine Taşçi Yıldırım and Sümeyye Onuk Demirci. Article in Eskiyeni 63 on Ibn Sīnā's little-studied treatise on why people's provision (rizq) is unequal. Reading it against his major works, the authors connect it to divine justice and power and to his claim that this is the best possible world, in which the overall good outweighs particular inequalities. https://dergipark.org.tr/tr/pub/eskiyeni/article/1928465 news-yilmaz-shafii-risala-bayan-four-or-five Wed, 30 Sep 2026 12:00:00 GMT usul study Okan Kadir Yılmaz (Tekirdağ Namık Kemal Üniversitesi). Article in Eskiyeni 63 that compares al-Shāfiʿī's two classifications of bayān in al-Risāla, using al-Umm and later uṣūl works. It argues that both contain the same five kinds, the first being a 'purely linguistic' bayān that imposes no obligation and is usually overlooked; the question concerns how meaning is conveyed (dalāla), a theme uṣūl shares with logic. https://islamicstudies.harvard.edu/event/seminar-whats-truth-got-do-it-logic-mere-instrument-philosophy-islamic-world-peter-adamson news-adamson-harvard-logic-mere-instrument Fri, 25 Sep 2026 12:00:00 GMT mantiq event Peter Adamson; Alwaleed Islamic Studies Program, Harvard University. Seminar by Peter Adamson (LMU Munich) at Harvard's Alwaleed Islamic Studies Program on the Aristotelian view, taken up in Arabic, that logic is an instrument of philosophy rather than a part of it. It traced the Baghdad school, Yaḥyā ibn ʿAdī, al-Fārābī and Ibn Sīnā's account of logic as concerned with second intentions, and argued that after Ibn Sīnā logic drifted towards a set of rules for mental operations. https://dergipark.org.tr/tr/pub/daad/article/1961517 news-acarer-altunya-farabi-canonization-organon Fri, 25 Sep 2026 12:00:00 GMT mantiq study Ayşe Acarer and Hülya Altunya Sayan. Article in Dinbilimleri Akademik Araştırma Dergisi 26/3 on how the Organon became an authoritative text in Islam, read through al-Fārābī. The authors argue that for al-Fārābī logic's authority rests on its universal method, not on the wording of Aristotle's texts, so examples and terms may be reformulated, and they connect this to his view that logic must be learned before physics and metaphysics. https://dergipark.org.tr/tr/pub/daad/article/1965818 news-eren-gokkir-ibn-kemal-baydawi-hashiya-kalam Fri, 25 Sep 2026 12:00:00 GMT kalam study Fatma Eren and Bilal Gökkır. Study, based on the Süleymaniye manuscript, of the theological objections in Ibn Kemāl Pasha's (d. 940/1534) gloss on al-Bayḍāwī's Anwār al-tanzīl for Q 2:21–96. The objections fall under five heads, among them checking the evidence and logical consistency; Ibn Kemāl often attacks the reasoning behind a conclusion rather than the conclusion itself, which shows the gloss genre doing dialectical work. https://dergipark.org.tr/tr/pub/mid/article/1944955 news-kaplan-maturidi-fitra-natural-morality Wed, 19 Aug 2026 12:00:00 GMT kalam study Ahmet Kaplan (Ankara Üniversitesi). Article in Mersin İlahiyat Dergisi on how fiṭra grounds moral action in Abū Manṣūr al-Māturīdī's theology. It examines the relation between natural temperament (ṭabʿ) and a fiṭra open to truth, stresses the role of reason in recognising objective good without revelation, and compares his view with natural-law and moral theories from Aristotle and Aquinas to Kant and Hume. https://www.trthaber.com/haber/kultur-sanat/yeni-yazmalar-koleksiyonu-dijital-erisime-aciliyor-952929.html news-tuyek-new-manuscripts-collection Mon, 03 Aug 2026 12:00:00 GMT mantiq digital Türkiye Yazma Eserler Kurumu Başkanlığı (TÜYEK). The Turkish Manuscripts Institution (TÜYEK) opened 6,388 newly acquired, catalogued and digitised manuscripts on its portal (portal.yek.gov.tr), which now holds about 485,000 works; most are Arabic and over half belong to the Islamic sciences. Ottoman madrasa copies of logic textbooks and their glosses are among the material that becomes searchable this way. https://dergipark.org.tr/tr/pub/umde/article/1919387 news-guzel-wad-verse-literature-kawakibi Fri, 31 Jul 2026 12:00:00 GMT wad edition Mehmet Emin Güzel (Aksaray Üniversitesi), UMDE Dini Tetkikler Dergisi 9/1. The article surveys didactic poems on waḍʿ, identifying seventeen, most of them based on al-Ījī's treatise and many still unedited. It then studies al-Kawākibī's (d. 1137/1725) al-Durra al-bahiyya and gives an edition from its only known manuscript, noting that the poem goes beyond al-Ījī to later topics such as the origin of language. https://dergipark.org.tr/tr/pub/ulum/article/1897686 news-ceylan-samani-ijma-qawati Fri, 31 Jul 2026 12:00:00 GMT usul study Mehmet Nezir Ceylan. Article in ULUM 9/1 on consensus in Qawāṭiʿ al-adilla by al-Samʿānī (d. 489/1096), compared with al-Shīrāzī and al-Juwaynī. Al-Samʿānī rejects the Medinan practice as an independent proof, ranks tacit consensus above analogy (qiyās), and treats consensus as a way of settling disputes; the article also covers his dialectical handling of opponents and the epistemic value of ijmāʿ. https://maturidisempozyumu.selcuk.edu.tr/2026/07/05/sempozyuma-davet/ news-maturidi-symposium-viii-konya-2026 Sun, 05 Jul 2026 12:00:00 GMT kalam event Mâtürîdî Merkezi, Selçuk Üniversitesi İlahiyat Fakültesi. The Māturīdī Centre of Selçuk University announced its eighth international symposium, to be held at the Faculty of Theology in Konya on 25–26 December 2026. Its theme is the culture of coexistence in the Ḥanafī-Māturīdī heritage; the suggested topics include reason (ʿaql) and philosophy, ḥikma and epistemic difference. https://dergipark.org.tr/en/download/article-file/5605745 news-yildiz-guney-madrasa-reform-student-letter Fri, 26 Jun 2026 12:00:00 GMT lugha study Hasan Yıldız and Mürselin Güney; Türkiye Din Eğitimi Araştırmaları Dergisi 21. The article reads a letter written in December 1915 by an Istanbul madrasa student, Ünyeli Mustafa Fevzi Efendi, to show how the Ottoman madrasa reform of 1914 changed daily life and teaching: classes on a school model and a revised set of textbooks. It notes the Arabic primers of the lower sections (Emsile, Avāmil, Iẓhār) and the move of other traditional books to the advanced sections. https://dergipark.org.tr/tr/pub/kiid/article/1853552 news-yurtkuran-kishi-nafs-al-amr Mon, 15 Jun 2026 12:00:00 GMT kalam study Muhammet Yurtkuran (Kocatepe İslami İlimler Dergisi). Reads the thirteenth-century scholar Shams al-Dīn al-Kīshī's account of nafs al-amr, the standard against which a proposition counts as true, as an independent theory of truth rather than a reply to al-Ṭūsī. It covers how true judgements about impossible things are grounded, a point of logic that al-Taftāzānī and al-Jurjānī later took into kalām. https://mitpressbookstore.mit.edu/book/9789004758414 news-philosophy-in-safavid-iran-late-period Thu, 11 Jun 2026 12:00:00 GMT falsafa study Reza Pourjavady (ed.), with Nariman Aavani, Wahid M. Amin, Khaled El-Rouayheb and others; Brill. An edited volume on the last generations of Safavid philosophy, after Mīr Dāmād and Mullā Ṣadrā. Eight chapters study the lives, works and doctrines of eight less-known philosophers, and the introduction sets them in the intellectual context of the era. It fills the gap between the school of Isfahan and the Qajar period. https://www.schweitzer-online.de/en/buch/Kalbarczyk/Philosophy-Language-Islamic-Legal-Theory/9789004736023/A76206960/ news-kalbarczyk-philosophy-of-language-razi-mahsul Mon, 01 Jun 2026 12:00:00 GMT usul study Nora Kalbarczyk (Brill). A monograph on the linguistic treatise of Fakhr al-Dīn al-Rāzī's al-Maḥṣūl fī ʿilm uṣūl al-fiqh. It follows how al-Rāzī takes over Ibn Sīnā's threefold division of signification (dalāla), by correspondence, containment and implication, and turns it into a hermeneutic toolkit for legal theory. The same division opens the logic handbooks, so the book shows a piece of manṭiq at work inside uṣūl. https://thediplomatinspain.com/en/2026/05/19/ibn-rushd-averroes-and-latin-averroism-conference-at-casa-arabe/?amp=1 news-ibn-rushd-900-cordoba-paris-conference Tue, 19 May 2026 12:00:00 GMT falsafa event Aquinas and 'the Arabs' International Working Group (AAIWG), University of Córdoba, Casa Árabe. Part of the commemoration of the 900th anniversary of Ibn Rushd's birth (1126–2026): four days and more than twenty papers at Casa Árabe in Córdoba (19–22 May 2026), continued in Paris. Topics include his metaphysics, natural philosophy and reception in Latin Scholasticism; logic and theory of knowledge is one of the programme areas. https://dergipark.org.tr/en/pub/adyusbd/article/1866404 news-guvener-molla-bakir-syllogism Thu, 23 Apr 2026 12:00:00 GMT mantiq study Gülistan Güvener. An article on the theory of the syllogism in Taftāzānī's Tahdhīb al-manṭiq as read through a twentieth-century Kurdish madrasa commentary, Molla Bakır's 'Mahdavi Logic'. It follows the figures, the conditions of production and the methods of proof, and shows that the Tahdhīb was still being commented on in living madrasas. https://ursh.univ-oran2.dz/ar/unit-activities/international-and-national-conferences/789-الملتقى-الدولي-ماذا-نَستفيد-من-ابن-رشد-اليوم؟ news-oran-ibn-rushd-today-conference Tue, 14 Apr 2026 12:00:00 GMT falsafa event Research Unit in Human Sciences, Faculty of Social Sciences, University of Oran 2 Mohamed Ben Ahmed. A two-day conference (14–15 April 2026) at the University of Oran 2, Algeria, marking nine centuries since Ibn Rushd's birth. Its nine themes range from contemporary readings of his heritage and the place of rational thinking between cultures to his political thought, justice and his account of the harmony of kinds of knowledge. https://zenodo.org/records/19535509 news-akmalhanov-miftah-manuscripts Sun, 12 Apr 2026 12:00:00 GMT lugha study Akmalhon Akmalhanov. A short study of al-Sakkākī's Miftāḥ al-ʿulūm as a madrasa text, centred on manuscript no. 7843 of the Institute of Oriental Studies in Uzbekistan, an incomplete copy that keeps the third division on maʿānī and bayān. It also surveys copies held in other countries, including newly recorded ones in Turkish libraries. The Miftāḥ is the book through which rhetoric was later systematised in the Talkhīṣ and its commentaries. https://islamicstudies.harvard.edu/news/2026/04/professor-khaled-el-rouayheb-publishes-new-book-north-african-ashari-theologian-al news-el-rouayheb-al-sanusi Wed, 01 Apr 2026 12:00:00 GMT mantiq study Khaled El-Rouayheb (Oxford University Press). A book on Muḥammad b. Yūsuf al-Sanūsī (d. 1490) of Tlemcen, theologian and logician, including his Epitome of Logic (al-Mukhtaṣar fī l-manṭiq). It shows how a North African scholar tied logic to the duty of knowing the proofs of belief, and how his short texts spread across the Muslim world. https://nazariyat.org/en/issues/cilt-12-sayi-1/ibrahim-halil-ucer-taskopruluzade news-ucer-taskopruzade-complete-cause Wed, 01 Apr 2026 12:00:00 GMT falsafa edition İbrahim Halil Üçer (Istanbul Medeniyet University), Nazariyat 12/1. A critical edition of a treatise by the Ottoman scholar Taşköprīzāde, from his autograph and a copy by his son, with an analysis. It stages as a disputation the post-Avicennian debate on 'complete' and 'incomplete' causes, which al-Abharī developed and al-Kātibī and Naṣīr al-Dīn al-Ṭūsī disputed — an example of Ottoman ḥikma carrying on the thirteenth-century debates. https://www.nazariyat.org/en/issues/cilt-12-sayi-1 news-amiri-masail-al-rayy-edition Wed, 01 Apr 2026 12:00:00 GMT falsafa edition Yusuf Arıkaner and Özkan Şimşek, Nazariyat 12/1. The first edition, from a single manuscript, of a recently discovered treatise by the tenth-century philosopher al-ʿĀmirī (d. 381/992). It answers twelve questions put to him in Rayy: how to define and classify religion, against the sceptical claim that the disagreement of religions makes truth unreachable, and then on God's existence, unity and attributes, prophecy and scripture. https://dergipark.org.tr/tr/download/article-file/5429445 news-agac-birgivi-avamil-verbs-logic Tue, 31 Mar 2026 12:00:00 GMT lugha study Şule Ağaç (Yalova University); Türkiye İlahiyat Araştırmaları Dergisi 10/1. The article reads the treatment of verbs in Birgivī's al-ʿAwāmil, a primer still taught in madrasas, with the tools of logic. Using the five universals, it reconstructs a complete essential definition (ḥadd tāmm) of the verb, then examines how analogy, induction and deduction work in the text. The author concludes that Birgivī built his grammar on logical principles. https://www.abbeys.com.au/book/al-khayrabadis-ladder-to-logic-al-mirqat-fi-ilm-al-mantiq-9781944904210.do news-furber-ladder-to-logic-mirqat Fri, 20 Mar 2026 12:00:00 GMT mantiq translation Musa Furber (Islamosaic). A bilingual Arabic–English edition of al-Mirqāt by Faḍl-i Imām Khayrābādī (d. 1828), the standard logic primer of the Dars-i Niẓāmī. It covers conception and assent, propositions and their modalities, the four figures, compound arguments and the five arts, and is laid out for students reading the Arabic with a teacher. https://dergipark.org.tr/en/pub/isad/article/1735117 news-kahya-takhsis-al-illa-hanafi Tue, 24 Feb 2026 12:00:00 GMT usul study Hatice Kübra Kahya (İslam Araştırmaları Dergisi, İSAM). An article on takhṣīṣ al-ʿilla, the question whether the ratio (ʿilla) of an analogy may be present in a case without its ruling. It compares the ʿIrāqī and Transoxanian Ḥanafīs, from al-Jaṣṣāṣ and al-Dabūsī to al-Sarakhsī and al-Bazdawī, and argues that Muʿtazilī and Sunnī theology drove the split. For readers of manṭiq it shows how strictly the 'cause' of a legal qiyās was expected to hold. https://dergipark.org.tr/tr/download/article-file/5500890 news-talan-demir-birgivi-literature-review Thu, 01 Jan 2026 12:00:00 GMT lugha study Ömer Faruk Talan and Halis Demir; Türkiye Araştırmaları Literatür Dergisi 23/43. A survey of the manuscripts, editions, theses, books and articles on Birgivī, gathered from Turkish databases and Google Scholar. It notes that his grammar works, al-ʿAwāmil and Iẓhār al-asrār, became staples of the Ottoman madrasa and are still taught, and that studies of his language and method remain few. https://philarchive.org/rec/NOUTGV news-nouar-grammar-vs-logic-debate Thu, 01 Jan 2026 12:00:00 GMT lugha study Abdelkarim Nouar (Istanbul Medeniyet University); Abiroun Journal for Interdisciplinary Studies. The article treats the grammar–logic relation as an epistemological question, with bayān and burhān as two models of rationality. Its central case is the debate of Abū Saʿīd al-Sīrāfī and Abū Bishr Mattā; it then follows al-Fārābī's parallel between the two arts, Yaḥyā b. ʿAdī's division of their subjects and aims, and the Andalusian exchange of al-Baṭalyawsī and Ibn Bājja. https://dergipark.org.tr/en/pub/ihad/article/1731693 news-karas-manar-khulasat-al-afkar-dalala Tue, 30 Dec 2025 12:00:00 GMT usul study Sümeyye Karaş (İslam Hukuku Araştırmaları Dergisi). Studies Ibn Quṭlūbughā's Khulāṣat al-afkār, a reworking of al-Nasafī's Manār al-anwār, through its use of dalāla (signification). Later Ḥanafī uṣūl authors drew on grammar, rhetoric, logic and the art of debate (munāẓara) to tie words to meanings, and the article reads dalāla here as both a grammatical and a logical term. It argues that the Khulāṣa reconstructs the Manār, the base text of Nūr al-anwār. https://www.routledge.com/The-Routledge-Handbook-of-Argumentation-Theory/Aikin-Casey-Stevens/p/book/9781041128410 news-oruc-routledge-handbook-munazara Mon, 29 Dec 2025 12:00:00 GMT munazara study Rahmi Oruç; eds. Scott Aikin, John Casey, Katharina Stevens (Routledge). A handbook chapter that questions the story in which argumentation studies begin in ancient Greece and decline into formal logic. It surveys Islamic argumentation and introduces munāẓara in three senses: an argumentation theory, a truth-seeking inquiry between disagreeing parties and an actual debate, arguing that Walton and Krabbe's dialogue types cannot capture it. The handbook carries a 2026 copyright. https://dergipark.org.tr/en/pub/imad/article/1795889 news-sensoy-burhan-al-tatbiq-sharh-al-aqaid Fri, 26 Dec 2025 12:00:00 GMT kalam study Güvenç Şensoy (İslam Medeniyeti Araştırmaları Dergisi). Examines how three Ottoman glossators of al-Taftāzānī's Sharḥ al-ʿAqāʾid tested burhān al-taṭbīq, the proof by correspondence used in kalām against an actually infinite series. Al-Khayālī weighs its strengths and weaknesses, al-Kastalī doubts that it works for individual cases, and Ramaḍān Efendi limits it to the external world. The gloss appears as a place of real argument about the validity of a proof. https://dergipark.org.tr/en/pub/vanid/article/1735482 news-icoz-orientalist-origins-arabic-grammar Mon, 15 Dec 2025 12:00:00 GMT lugha study Talip İçöz (Atatürk University); Van İlahiyat Dergisi 13/23. The article reviews the nineteenth-century claims, beginning with Albert Merx, that Greek models shaped Arabic grammar, and the later variants pointing to Syriac, Latin, Sanskrit or Persian influence. The author argues that Arabic grammar grew from the language's own internal dynamics. The question of Greek influence is the historical background of the grammar–logic debate. https://philevents.org/event/show/140930 news-asg-v-avicenna-mubahathat-bochum Tue, 02 Dec 2025 12:00:00 GMT falsafa event Kübra Bahci and Andreas Lammer, Ruhr-Universität Bochum. Fifteen papers (Bochum, 2–4 December 2025) on al-Mubāḥathāt, the record of Ibn Sīnā's discussions with his disciples, whose value as a source is disputed. Held at the new Avicenna Study Center within the ERC project ALIVE (Avicenna Live), which studies his teachers and students; the organisers plan a website for a collaborative English translation. https://sites.google.com/view/unilog2025/tutorials/definition-in-islamicate-philosophy news-unilog-2025-definition-tutorial Mon, 01 Dec 2025 12:00:00 GMT mantiq event Sherif Salem (University Canada West). A three-session tutorial at the 8th World School on Universal Logic (Cusco, 4–8 December 2025) on definition as the link between conception and demonstration. It reads Avicenna's account, Fakhr al-Dīn al-Rāzī's objections and Naṣīr al-Dīn al-Ṭūsī's replies from primary sources — the background to the chapter on definition (al-qawl al-shāriḥ) in the madrasa primers. https://www.cambridge.org/core/product/identifier/9781009588478/type/book news-sheibani-ibn-abd-al-salam-legal-philosophy Sat, 01 Nov 2025 12:00:00 GMT usul study Mariam Sheibani (Cambridge University Press, Cambridge Studies in Islamic Civilization). A study of the Shāfiʿī jurist ʿIzz al-Dīn Ibn ʿAbd al-Salām (d. 660/1262) and his account of the law as purposive and coherent, built on human benefit (maṣlaḥa) and legal maxims (qawāʿid). It follows his formation in Ayyubid Damascus, the use of his ideas in reform in Damascus and Cairo, and their reception across the schools, in a period of legal theory the author finds understudied. https://dergipark.org.tr/en/pub/mader/article/1741228 news-gelenbevi-mawdu-al-mantiq Fri, 31 Oct 2025 12:00:00 GMT mantiq study Havva Kızılçardak Özdemir. A study of a two-page treatise attributed to the Ottoman logician Gelenbevî (d. 1791) on the old question of what logic is about: second intelligibles (the Avicennan view) or conception and assent (the view of Khūnajī and Taftāzānī). It places Gelenbevî with the 'later' scholars and is a good entry into a question raised at the very start of every logic textbook. https://dergipark.org.tr/en/pub/bilimname/article/1690711 news-telkenaroglu-ozen-wad-linguistic-certainty Fri, 31 Oct 2025 12:00:00 GMT wad study Merter Rahmi Telkenaroğlu and Hamza Özen (Nevşehir Hacı Bektaş Veli Üniversitesi), bilimname 54. Starting from Fakhr al-Dīn al-Rāzī's fourfold account of waḍʿ in al-Maḥṣūl and the debate over whether language is revealed or conventional, the article asks how far words can yield certain knowledge. It then follows the question through al-Ījī, ʿAlī Qūshjī, Mollā Luṭfī and the Ottoman madrasa curriculum. The certainty of verbal evidence bears directly on what counts as a demonstrative premise in logic. https://www.ecieco.org/en/news/10470/Mulla-Sadra-Symposium-within-the-Framework-of-Iran-T%c3%bcrkiye-s-Shared-Philosophical-Heritage news-mulla-sadra-asfar-turkish-symposium Thu, 23 Oct 2025 12:00:00 GMT falsafa event ECO Cultural Institute (report). A symposium of Iranian and Turkish scholars in Qom, held on the occasion of the Turkish translation of Mullā Ṣadrā's al-Asfār al-arbaʿa. It discussed the Transcendent Philosophy (al-ḥikma al-mutaʿāliya), its present relevance and academic cooperation, followed by a visit to Isfahan, the city of Ṣadrā's school. https://www.degruyterbrill.com/document/doi/10.1515/9781399533140/html news-analytic-islamic-epistemology Tue, 30 Sep 2025 12:00:00 GMT kalam study Safaruk Chowdhury and Ramon Harvey (eds), Edinburgh University Press. The first collected volume to bring Islamic theories of knowledge into conversation with analytic philosophy of religion, with fifteen contributors. Its part on epistemological sources in kalām treats experience in classical kalām and Ashʿarī foundationalism, including how rational reflection (naẓar) yields knowledge, the question the kalām handbooks settle in their opening chapters before turning to God. https://lockwoodpressonline.com/index.php/ebooks/catalog/book/97 news-compendium-of-seminary-texts-emin-er Mon, 15 Sep 2025 12:00:00 GMT munazara translation Muhammad Emin Er; ed. and trans. Justin Poe and Marwan M. Tayyan (Lockwood Press, ASIPT series). An open-access English–Arabic edition of twelve intermediate primers by the Turkish scholar Muhammad Emin Er (c. 1914–2013), written for the Ottoman madrasa curriculum, with notes and a glossary of over 700 terms. Text 6, The Quintessence, is his manual of dialectic (al-Lubāb fī ʿilm al-munāẓara wa-l-ādāb); it follows text 3, a primer on logic, as in the madrasa sequence. https://nes.princeton.edu/publications/logic-soul-and-word-essays-arabic-philosophy-honor-tony-street news-street-festschrift-logic-soul-world Thu, 03 Jul 2025 12:00:00 GMT mantiq study Asad Q. Ahmed, Mohammad Saleh Zarepour and Riccardo Strobino (eds.). A Brill volume (Islamic Philosophy, Theology and Science 130) of new essays, most of them on Arabic logic from al-Fārābī and Avicenna to the later tradition, with an interview with Tony Street. It gathers much of the current research on post-classical logic in one place. https://dergipark.org.tr/en/pub/is/article/1675050 news-oruk-akman-suhrawardi-tautology Mon, 30 Jun 2025 12:00:00 GMT falsafa study Zehra Oruk Akman (Muş Alparslan University), Ilahiyat Studies 16/1. An article on al-Suhrawardī's argument that statements of the form 'A is A' have no epistemic value, because subject and predicate must be distinct concepts with different roles. It shows how his Illuminationist metaphysics shapes his logic of the proposition (qaḍiyya) and compares him with medieval commentators. https://dergipark.org.tr/en/pub/gemder/article/1662344 news-yildirim-zibari-hashiya-on-jami Sat, 21 Jun 2025 12:00:00 GMT lugha study Feridun Yıldırım (Erciyes University); Genç Mütefekkirler Dergisi 6/2. A study of a super-gloss by Ḥasan b. Muḥammad al-Zībārī (late 16th–early 17th c.) on al-Isfarāyīnī's gloss on Mullā Jāmī's commentary on Ibn al-Ḥājib's Kāfiya, the grammar layer of the madrasa curriculum. It introduces the base text, commentary and gloss, gives al-Zībārī's biography and his works in grammar, logic and tafsīr, and illustrates his method with examples. https://www.uni-muenster.de/ArabistikIslam/Forschen/Tagungen/munazara.html news-munster-munazara-seeing-eye-to-eye-conference Tue, 10 Jun 2025 12:00:00 GMT munazara event University of Münster, Institut für Arabistik und Islamwissenschaft; Cluster of Excellence "Religion and Politics". A conference at the University of Münster (10–12 June 2025) compared Islamic practices of disputation in theology and in literature, from debates between scholars and laypeople to literary debate texts and online platforms. A conference volume is in preparation; the University of Vienna lists for it a chapter by Kamil Öktem on al-Rāzī's account of disputation in Transoxania. https://lockwoodpressonline.com/index.php/ebooks/catalog/book/92 news-spevack-logic-of-al-fanari Tue, 03 Jun 2025 12:00:00 GMT mantiq translation Aaron Spevack (Lockwood Press). An annotated English translation of al-Fawāʾid al-Fanāriyya, Shams al-Dīn al-Fanārī's (d. 1431) commentary on the Īsāghūjī, the standard first commentary in the Ottoman madrasa. Each chapter is analysed with references to the super-commentaries and with worked examples, which makes it a direct companion for a second reading of the Īsāghūjī. https://www.unive.it/web/it/15165/articolo/6622 news-unmap-erc-margins-of-shifa Tue, 27 May 2025 12:00:00 GMT falsafa study Silvia Di Vincenzo (Ca' Foscari University of Venice), with IMT Lucca and CNR-ILC. A five-year ERC project (from March 2025) on the marginal notes in over 200 manuscripts of Ibn Sīnā's al-Shifāʾ, copied over seven centuries from Spain to India, using AI-assisted palaeography to identify scribes and readers. Its corpus is the logic of the Shifāʾ, so it traces how Avicennian logic was actually read and taught. https://yayinevi.ihu.edu.tr/book/kitab-al-tawid-tab-altohyd-the-book-of-monotheism-2-cilt news-maturidi-kitab-al-tawhid-english Thu, 22 May 2025 12:00:00 GMT kalam translation Abū Manṣūr al-Māturīdī; ed. Ramon Harvey, tr. Tahir Uluç (İbn Haldun University Press). A complete English translation, in two volumes, of al-Māturīdī's Kitāb al-Tawḥīd, the founding text of the Māturīdī school of Sunnī kalām and perhaps the oldest surviving work to treat tawḥīd across every aspect of existence. The book opens with the ways to knowledge (the senses, reports and rational reflection, naẓar), the starting point of later Māturīdī discussions of proof (dalīl). https://www.mshireb.com/news/%D8%A7%D9%84%D8%AF%D9%88%D8%AD%D8%A9-%D8%AA%D8%AD%D8%AA%D8%B6%D9%86-%D8%A7%D9%86%D8%B7%D9%84%D8%A7%D9%82-%D8%A7%D9%84%D9%86%D8%B3%D8%AE%D8%A9-%D8%A7%D9%84%D8%AB%D8%A7%D9%86%D9%8A%D8%A9-%D9%85%D9%86/ news-doha-second-conference-debate-dialogue Mon, 19 May 2025 12:00:00 GMT munazara event QatarDebate Center, Qatar Foundation. The second edition of this conference, held on 19–20 May 2025 at the Qatar National Convention Centre in Doha, linked research in philosophy, education, linguistics and the Islamic sciences. Sessions treated disputation in Islamic manuscripts and in law and thought, and an exhibition showed rare manuscripts of the Islamic debate tradition. Selected papers later appeared in a special issue of Informal Logic. https://cordis.europa.eu/project/id/101167470/fr news-revlogredux-erc-project Thu, 01 May 2025 12:00:00 GMT mantiq event CNRS, University of Geneva and partners. A six-year ERC project (2025–2031) on how medieval traditions, Arabic among them, classified and judged fallacious arguments. It will build an open-access encyclopaedia of illegitimate argumentative moves — relevant to the art of sophistry (mughālaṭa) that closes the classical logic books. https://southernasia.uchicago.edu/calendar_event/max-bruce-lecture-the-legacy-of-avicennism-in-nineteenth-century-south-asia news-ahmed-avicennism-nineteenth-century-south-asia Wed, 30 Apr 2025 12:00:00 GMT falsafa event Asad Q. Ahmed (University of California, Berkeley). A lecture on how nineteenth-century South Asian scholars received Ibn Sīnā's distinction between essence and existence. It follows a treatise on simple and compound generation (jaʿl) that traces the debate from the Illuminationists and Peripatetics through Isfahan and Shiraz to India, and asks why the question mattered there. https://icesco.org/en/2025/04/30/icesco-participates-in-the-international-conference-on-the-heritage-of-imam-al-maturidi-in-uzbekistan/ news-samarkand-maturidism-conference-2025 Tue, 29 Apr 2025 12:00:00 GMT kalam event Samarkand, Uzbekistan; ICESCO among the participants. A two-day international conference in Samarkand (29–30 April 2025) on the legacy of Abū Manṣūr al-Māturīdī and his contribution to the Islamic sciences, attended by scholars, ministers and international institutions. Speakers called for a renewal of ʿilm al-kalām to meet modern questions, including those raised by technological change. https://indiepubs.com/products/abu-l-abbas-al-lawkari-d-after-5031109-bayan-al-haqq-bi-daman-al-sidq-an-early-reader-in-avicennas-philosophy-9789004725478 news-lawkari-bayan-al-haqq-edition Thu, 24 Apr 2025 12:00:00 GMT falsafa edition Mohammad Javad Esmaeili and Joep Lameer; Brill. An edition of the first two books of the natural philosophy of al-Lawkarī's Bayān al-ḥaqq, a teacher's manual of Avicennian philosophy by a second-generation student of Ibn Sīnā, who spread his thought in Khorasan in the time of al-Ghazālī. It shows the early textbook form of falsafa and its tacit use of Bahmanyār. https://dergipark.org.tr/en/pub/imad/article/1637775 news-yesilyayla-qarafi-theory-of-wad Thu, 24 Apr 2025 12:00:00 GMT wad study Şeyma Yeşilyayla, İslam Medeniyeti Araştırmaları Dergisi 10/1. The article examines al-Qarāfī's (d. 684/1285) division of coinage into linguistic, customary and legal kinds, and al-Maḥallī's (d. 864/1459) objection that linguistic and legal coinage do not differ in essence. It argues that al-Qarāfī's explanation of customary and legal coinage through frequency of use is original. Logic handbooks draw the same lines in their chapter on words, where a transferred term (manqūl) is customary or legal. https://macmillan.yale.edu/middleeast/workshop-philosophy-fakhr-al-din-al-razi news-yale-razi-philosophy-workshop-2025 Fri, 04 Apr 2025 12:00:00 GMT kalam event Peter Adamson, Frank Griffel and Damien Janos (Yale University and LMU Munich). A two-day workshop at Yale (4–5 April 2025) on al-Rāzī, the theologian who set the agenda of post-classical kalām, covering the eternity of the world, ethics, law, exegesis, astrology, incantations and poetics. Riccardo Strobino spoke on al-Rāzī's logic, the field in which his revisions of Avicenna fed into the later madrasa textbooks. https://www.nazariyat.org/en/issues/cilt-11-sayi-1/abdullah-yildirim news-yildirim-qushji-philosophy-of-language Tue, 01 Apr 2025 12:00:00 GMT wad study Abdullah Yıldırım (İstanbul Medeniyet Üniversitesi), Nazariyat 11/1. The article reads the waḍʿ section of ʿAlī Qūshjī's ʿUnqūd al-zawāhir as an inquiry into the foundations of language, in which coinage grounds lexicography and, through it, morphology, grammar and rhetoric. It connects the universal and particular sides of waḍʿ and shows how word and meaning take shape as signification. Signification (dalāla) is the point where this theory meets the opening chapter of logic. https://www.lockwoodpressonline.com/index.php/ebooks/catalog/book/90 news-karamali-discerning-religious-truth Mon, 31 Mar 2025 12:00:00 GMT mantiq study Hamza Karamali, Marwan Tayyan and Justin Poe (Lockwood Press). A teaching book built on al-Khabīṣī's (d. 1640) commentary on Taftāzānī's Tahdhīb al-manṭiq and its glosses, explained in the language of modern analytic philosophy. It is meant to help madrasa-trained students and philosophers read the same logic together. https://www.degruyterbrill.com/document/doi/10.1515/9783111566115/html news-husic-amidi-essential-attributes Mon, 17 Feb 2025 12:00:00 GMT kalam study Ahmed Husić (De Gruyter Brill). An open-access German monograph on the seven essential attributes of God in Ashʿarī theology, centred on Sayf al-Dīn al-Āmidī (d. 1233). It regroups them as power, will and knowledge; life and sight; hearing and speech, and relates al-Āmidī's views to present-day debates. Fourth volume of Kalām Studies, a new series on kalām from the formative to the modern period. https://www.shiahinstitute.org/publications/theology-abstracted/ news-tusi-tajrid-theology-abstracted Fri, 14 Feb 2025 12:00:00 GMT kalam translation Sayyid Amjad H. Shah Naqavi (The Shīʿah Institute). A new critical edition of al-Ṭūsī's Tajrīd al-iʿtiqād, based on the author's signed manuscript and the text embedded in al-ʿAllāma al-Ḥillī's commentary, with a facing English translation. The Tajrīd is the foundational handbook of Twelver Shīʿī kalām; its opening books on general metaphysics, substance and accident set a philosophical vocabulary that Sunnī commentators such as al-Qūshjī also took up. https://lehmanns.ch/shop/geisteswissenschaften/71832472-9789004504004-the-heirs-of-avicenna-philosophy-in-the-islamic-east-12-13th-centuries news-heirs-of-avicenna-logic-sourcebook Thu, 30 Jan 2025 12:00:00 GMT mantiq study Peter Adamson, Fedor Benevich and Dustin Klinger (Brill). The second sourcebook of the 'Heirs of Avicenna' series translates and analyses hundreds of passages from the twelfth and thirteenth centuries on logic, philosophy of language and knowledge — the subject matter of logic, syllogistic, paradoxes. These are the debates out of which the Shamsiyya and the other post-Avicennan primers grew. https://journals.jazanu.edu.sa/ojs/index.php/JUJHS/ar/article/view/604/461 news-taftazani-istidrakat-amr-nahy-jazan Wed, 01 Jan 2025 12:00:00 GMT usul study Ameur Aljoud Mekki (Islamic University of Madinah), Jazan University Journal of Human Sciences. Examines the corrections (istidrākāt) that Saʿd al-Dīn al-Taftāzānī makes on command (amr) and prohibition (nahy) in his gloss on al-ʿAḍud al-Ījī's commentary on Ibn al-Ḥājib's Mukhtaṣar. Seven cases are studied, aimed at al-Ghazālī and earlier commentators on the Mukhtaṣar such as Quṭb al-Dīn al-Shīrāzī and al-Ījī himself; the author judges six of them sound and lists the formulas al-Taftāzānī uses. https://www.cambridge.org/core/books/mobile-manuscripts/74DB6E3D9DF18DDD8B0236481975B2DC news-bahl-mobile-manuscripts Wed, 01 Jan 2025 12:00:00 GMT lugha study Christopher D. Bahl (Durham University); Cambridge University Press, Cambridge Oceanic Histories. The book follows Arabic learning as a form of mobility from the fifteenth to the seventeenth century, tracing manuscripts from Egypt and the Hijaz through Yemen to Gujarat and the Deccan. Drawing on manuscripts in eight archives and their marginal notes, it includes a chapter on Arabic philology in early modern South Asia, where the madrasa grammar curriculum later took shape. https://albert.ias.edu/20.500.12111/8199 news-ansari-schmidtke-himsi-razi-family Wed, 01 Jan 2025 12:00:00 GMT kalam edition Hassan Ansari and Sabine Schmidtke, with Hamid Ataei Nazari (Brill). Reconstructs a family of Twelver Shīʿī scholars active in Iran in the 13th–14th centuries from ownership notes, colophons, marginalia and ijāzas in German, Iranian and Turkish libraries, filling part of the gap between al-Sharīf al-Murtaḍā and Naṣīr al-Dīn al-Ṭūsī. It includes the first edition of Jamāl al-Dīn al-Ḥimṣī al-Rāzī's Mishkāt al-yaqīn fī uṣūl al-dīn. https://openaccess.ihu.edu.tr/entities/publication/99e09e89-7919-4d27-9556-7757972e974e/full news-komath-qiyas-ghazali-informal-logic Wed, 01 Jan 2025 12:00:00 GMT usul study Muhammed Komath (Ibn Haldun University), Informal Logic 45/3. Asks what gives legal analogy its rational force and answers with a logical justification, drawing mainly on al-Ghazālī's al-Mustaṣfā and his book on dialectic, al-Muntakhal fī al-jadal. It argues that al-Ghazālī's model of qiyās combines elements of Scott Brewer's abduction model and Douglas Walton's defeasible argument. Published in Informal Logic, it sets the Mustaṣfā's logic-based account of qiyās beside modern argumentation theory. https://www.cambridge.org/core/services/aop-cambridge-core/content/view/0F99CB52E3F2F299864BA30E1A33C8F2/S0957423925100349a.pdf/averroess-concession-to-avicenna-introduction-first-edition-english-translation-and-textual-tradition.pdf news-meyrav-licata-averroes-concession-to-avicenna Wed, 01 Jan 2025 12:00:00 GMT falsafa edition Yoav Meyrav and Giovanni Licata, Arabic Sciences and Philosophy 35. A first edition of the Hebrew and early Latin versions of the seventh chapter of Ibn Rushd's De substantia orbis, whose Arabic is lost, with an English translation and analysis (open access). In it Ibn Rushd briefly accepts Ibn Sīnā's modal distinction between necessary in itself and possible in itself but necessary through another, placing the shift only in the intellect's abstraction. https://researchconnect.stonybrook.edu/en/publications/language-and-being-in-al-f%C4%81r%C4%81b%C4%AB-the-philosophy-of-ta%C5%A1k%C4%ABk/ news-ansari-language-and-being-farabi Wed, 01 Jan 2025 12:00:00 GMT falsafa study Rosabel P. Ansari (Stony Brook University); Oxford University Press. A monograph on al-Fārābī's theory that 'being' is predicated neither purely homonymously nor purely synonymously but 'amphibolously' (taškīk), and on its later use up to at least the fifteenth century. It is the background of the logicians' division of terms into univocal (mutawāṭiʾ) and modulated (mushakkik), and argues that for al-Fārābī language rests on an ontological basis. https://www.islamiarastirmalar.com/journal_article/teftazaninin-mutavvelindeki-mantik-referansli-ilkeler/ news-ucar-mutawwal-logic-principles Wed, 01 Jan 2025 12:00:00 GMT lugha study Hasan Uçar (Selçuk University); İslami Araştırmalar 36/2. The article traces how balāgha drew on logic from al-Sakkākī and al-Qazwīnī to al-Taftāzānī, and lists the logical principles that al-Taftāzānī either took from logic or formulated himself in his Muṭawwal on the Talkhīṣ al-Miftāḥ. It shows how he applied them to Qurʾānic verses and rhetorical topics, using universal logical rules as explicit references within rhetoric. https://ajba.um.edu.my/index.php/RIS/article/view/54213 news-saged-umm-al-barahin-methodology Mon, 30 Dec 2024 12:00:00 GMT kalam study Ali Ali Gobaili Saged, Syed Mohammad Hilmi Syed Abdul Rahman and Ben Kherif Alaa Eddine. An Arabic article from the University of Malaya on the method of al-Sanūsī's Umm al-Barāhīn, the short Ashʿarī creed taught from North Africa to Southeast Asia. It defines the creed's key terms and traces the frameworks al-Sanūsī built on, among them joining the certainty of revelation and of reason. The text itself is built on the rational judgement (ḥukm ʿaqlī): necessary, impossible, possible. https://journals.rudn.ru/philosophy/article/view/42162/en_US news-palenko-tawhidi-sirafi-matta Sun, 15 Dec 2024 12:00:00 GMT lugha study Mikhail S. Palenko; RUDN Journal of Philosophy 28/4. The article reads the Baghdad debate between the grammarian Abū Saʿīd al-Sīrāfī and the logician Abū Bishr Mattā as al-Tawḥīdī records it in the eighth night of al-Imtāʿ wa-l-muʾānasa. It sets out al-Sīrāfī's claim that knowing the language suffices and Mattā's that only logic separates true from false, and uses formal logic to test whether the dialogue could have come down as it now reads. https://philevents.org/event/show/124598 news-ottoman-logic-reading-workshop-miyar-i-sedad Mon, 19 Aug 2024 12:00:00 GMT mantiq event Rıza Tevfik Kalyoncu (Ibn Haldun University). An online reading workshop (19 August – 30 September 2024) in which participants read and translated Ahmed Cevdet Pasha's Ottoman Turkish logic treatise Miʿyār-ı Sedād chapter by chapter. It shows how the madrasa logic of the Shamsiyya tradition was restated in Turkish in the nineteenth century. https://dergipark.org.tr/en/pub/isad/article/1453635 news-isleme-first-commentary-risala-wadiyya Thu, 08 Aug 2024 12:00:00 GMT wad study Akın İşleme (Marmara Üniversitesi), İslam Araştırmaları Dergisi 52. The first commentary on al-Ījī's two-leaf treatise on waḍʿ circulates without a title, and its manuscripts name three different authors: Khwāja ʿAlī al-Samarqandī, ʿAlī Qūshjī and Abū al-Qāsim al-Laythī al-Samarqandī. The article weighs these attributions to establish who wrote it. The commentary became the usual entry text of the field. https://almahdi.edu/registration-now-open-for-the-12th-annual-fiqhi-workshop-on-language-and-meaning-in-islamic-legal-theory/ news-almahdi-language-meaning-legal-theory-workshop Thu, 04 Jul 2024 12:00:00 GMT usul event Al-Mahdi Institute, Department of Islamic Legal Studies. A two-day workshop (4–5 July 2024) at Al-Mahdi Institute, Birmingham, for scholars of legal theory, hermeneutics and the philosophy of language. Themes included the relation of words to meanings, literal (ḥaqīqa) and figurative (majāz) use, command and prohibition, general and specific, absolute and restricted, clear and ambiguous statements. These 'discussions of words' (mabāḥith al-alfāẓ) share their account of signification with the opening chapter of manṭiq. https://dergipark.org.tr/en/pub/tahkik/issue/86110/1459172 news-ucar-molla-husrev-naqd-al-afkar-logic Mon, 01 Jul 2024 12:00:00 GMT mantiq edition Hasan Uçar (Tahkik journal). A critical edition of the logic chapter of Molla Hüsrev's (d. 1480) arbitration (muḥākama) between two fifteenth-century scholars. The disputed points concern difficult passages of Urmawī's Maṭāliʿ al-anwār and its commentaries, so the text shows how advanced Ottoman students argued over the higher logic books. https://dergipark.org.tr/en/pub/tahkik/issue/86110/1471519 news-sahin-velican-ismat-al-azhan Mon, 01 Jul 2024 12:00:00 GMT mantiq edition Ali Rıza Şahin (Tahkik journal). An edition with Turkish translation of a short eighteenth-century Ottoman logic handbook, surviving in more than twenty copies. It runs from the five universals and definition through the syllogism, contradiction and conversion to the five arts and a closing section on disputation (ādāb al-baḥth). https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s11841-024-01018-w news-arslan-sharh-al-aqaid-divine-attributes Fri, 21 Jun 2024 12:00:00 GMT kalam study Mehmet Fatih Arslan (Sophia 64). Shows how the formula that God's attributes are possible in themselves and necessary through God, first floated hesitantly by Fakhr al-Dīn al-Rāzī from Avicenna, was refined by al-Taftāzānī in Sharḥ al-ʿAqāʾid and developed in the glosses of al-Khayālī and Ramaḍān Efendi. An open-access study of how the modal concepts of falsafa entered Sunnī kalām. https://islamicstudies.harvard.edu/event/textbook-tradition-and-higher-research-k%C4%81tib%C4%ABs-shamsiyyah-disputed-points-logic-dr-tony.md news-street-harvard-lecture-shamsiyya Mon, 06 May 2024 12:00:00 GMT mantiq event Tony Street; Harvard Alwaleed Islamic Studies Program. A lecture at Harvard on why al-Kātibī's Shamsiyya became the most widely read logic textbook of the madrasa, and how it prepared students for advanced works such as Khūnajī's Kashf al-asrār. A useful look at how a primer and higher research were connected. https://www.academia.edu/122814032/THE_DEVELOPMENT_OF_%CA%BFILM_AL_WA%E1%B8%8C%CA%BF_8_TH_14_TH_15_TH_20_TH_CENTURY_ORIGINS_CONTEXTS_AND_CANONS_OF_A_SEMANTIC_THEORY news-carrera-development-of-ilm-al-wad Fri, 01 Mar 2024 12:00:00 GMT wad study Giovanni M. Carrera, Institute of Islamic Studies, McGill University. This McGill doctoral thesis presents itself as the first systematic history of ʿilm al-waḍʿ, from al-Ījī's al-Risāla al-waḍʿiyya through the commentaries and glosses of al-Jurjānī, Jāmī, Qūshjī and ʿIṣām al-Dīn al-Isfarāʾinī to twentieth-century madrasa manuals. It shows how a theory of how pronouns and particles signify particulars grew into a semantics of all parts of speech. https://directory.doabooks.org/handle/20.500.12854/150992 news-fallacies-arabic-byzantine-hebrew-latin Mon, 01 Jan 2024 12:00:00 GMT munazara study eds. Laurent Cesalli, Leone Gazziero, Charles H. Manekin, Shahid Rahman, Tony Street (Brepols, Ad argumenta 4). An open-access volume on medieval fallacy theory, against the view that the study of fallacies lay dormant from Aristotle to Port Royal and Locke. On the Arabic side it includes a chapter by Shahid Rahman and Walter Young on deontic puzzles in Islamic legal theory and dialectic. Several of its editors now lead the ERC project RevLogRedux on fallacies, including those of jadal. https://muse.jhu.edu/book/134168 news-street-shamsiyya-edition-translation Mon, 01 Jan 2024 12:00:00 GMT mantiq translation Tony Street (NYU Press, Library of Arabic Literature). A new Arabic edition with facing English translation and commentary of the Shamsiyya, in the Library of Arabic Literature. It is the first full scholarly English version of the book that, with Quṭb al-Dīn al-Rāzī's commentary, was the core logic text of madrasas from the fourteenth century on; an English-only paperback followed as 'The Rules of Logic' (NYU Press, 2025). https://nazariyat.org/en/issues/cilt-10-sayi-2/omer-turker-ici-kuscu news-turker-ontological-logical-modality Mon, 01 Jan 2024 12:00:00 GMT kalam study Ömer Türker (Nazariyat 10/2). Follows a dispute begun by ʿAḍud al-Dīn al-Ījī's claim in al-Mawāqif that necessity, possibility and impossibility in general ontology differ from the modalities of logic. Türker traces the objections of al-Jurjānī, al-Taftāzānī and the Tajrīd commentators down to ʿAlī Qūshjī, and argues that al-Ījī was marking a new stage of metaphysical analysis. A direct case of logic shaping the metaphysics of the kalām handbooks. https://www.isam.org.tr/en/publication/serhu-l-mevakif-ve-hasiyeleri-baglaminda-nakli-delilin-kesinligi-1 news-sen-certainty-of-naqli-proof-sharh-al-mawaqif Mon, 01 Jan 2024 12:00:00 GMT kalam study İsrafil Şen (İSAM). A monograph on whether scriptural proofs (Qurʾān and ḥadīth) can yield certain knowledge (yaqīn), a problem opened by Fakhr al-Dīn al-Rāzī and developed by al-Sayyid al-Sharīf al-Jurjānī. It reads al-Jurjānī's Sharḥ al-Mawāqif together with its glosses (ḥawāshī) and their sources. The question belongs to the theory of proof: when premises drawn from language can produce certainty. https://epub.ub.uni-muenchen.de/129229/ news-schwarb-bahshami-epistemology-edition Mon, 01 Jan 2024 12:00:00 GMT kalam edition Gregor Schwarb (ed.). An open-access synoptic edition of the introductions to Ibn Mattawayh's Kitāb al-Tadhkira fī aḥkām al-jawāhir wa-l-aʿrāḍ and its commentary, probably by Abū Jaʿfar Muḥammad b. ʿAlī Mazdak. Read together, these prefaces outline the basic notions of Bahshamī Muʿtazilī epistemology, a school whose texts survived largely through Zaydī scholarship in Yemen. https://harf-o-sukhan.com/index.php/Harf-o-sukhan/article/view/1425 news-abbas-rehman-kalam-dars-i-nizami Mon, 01 Jan 2024 12:00:00 GMT kalam study Hafiz Furqan Abbas and Hafiz Ateeq Ur Rehman (Harf-o-Sukhan). An Urdu article on how ʿilm al-kalām is taught in the Dars-i Niẓāmī, the madrasa curriculum of South Asia, where kalām was added alongside philosophy and logic as one of the rational sciences. The authors describe the place of these subjects in the syllabus, explain why they matter, and propose improvements to the way they are taught. https://tezara.org/theses/922444 news-kantepe-twentieth-century-wad-studies Mon, 01 Jan 2024 12:00:00 GMT wad study Zeynep Rana Kantepe; supervisor Abdullah Kızılcık, İstanbul Üniversitesi. This master's thesis compares twentieth-century Arabic works on waḍʿ written in classical and in modern style. It finds two streams: one continuing the madrasa commentary tradition, the other shaped by teaching waḍʿ in universities and official institutions, and it notes that the scholars of the period disagreed on several questions. https://www.nazariyat.org/en/issues/cilt-10-sayi-1/harun-kuslu-dil-felsefesi news-kuslu-demonstratives-logicalization Mon, 01 Jan 2024 12:00:00 GMT wad study Harun Kuşlu (İstanbul Medeniyet Üniversitesi), Nazariyat 10/1. The article follows a dispute that began with the ambiguous words (mubhamāt) of al-Ījī's al-Risāla al-waḍʿiyya: al-Taftāzānī tied demonstratives to a general mental meaning, al-Jurjānī to concrete particulars. Through al-Dawwānī, ʿIṣām al-Dīn al-Isfarāʾinī, al-Siyālkūtī and Gelenbevī, al-Taftāzānī's view brought singular terms with demonstratives, such as "this laugher", into logic, where they can stand in a relation of equality. https://journals.qu.edu.qa/index.php/sharia/article/download/4331/2882?inline=1 news-nuqani-kitab-al-jadal-edition Mon, 01 Jan 2024 12:00:00 GMT munazara edition Mohsen al-Zarwali (Journal of College of Sharia & Islamic Studies, Qatar University, 42:2). First edition of a short Shāfiʿī teaching manual of juridical dialectic by a sixth/twelfth-century scholar, from a single Istanbul manuscript (Rāghib Pāshā 1968, copied about 601/1205), with a reconstructed biography and a correction of its attribution to Fakhr al-Nūqānī. It lists the objections to qiyās and their order in debate, and is compared with al-Barawī's al-Muqtaraḥ. https://www.simurgkitabevi.com/munazara-dersleri-risale-fi-adabil-bahs-2024 news-yazici-samarqandi-munazara-dersleri Mon, 01 Jan 2024 12:00:00 GMT munazara translation Muhammed Yazıcı (Tin Yayınları, Istanbul). A Turkish translation with commentary of Shams al-Dīn al-Samarqandī's Risāla fī ādāb al-baḥth, the founding text of the discipline (158 pages). The publisher presents munāẓara as a method that gives the parties the roles of claimant (muʿallil) and questioner (sāʾil) and uses the logical principle of non-contradiction to fix which objections and answers are valid. https://dergipark.org.tr/en/pub/mader/article/1223213 news-selcuk-mizan-al-ukul-felsefe-dersleri Sun, 31 Dec 2023 12:00:00 GMT mantiq study Remziye Selçuk (Mantık Araştırmaları Dergisi). Compares two late Ottoman logic textbooks, Ali Sedad's Mīzān al-ʿuqūl and İzmirli İsmail Hakkı's Felsefe Dersleri, which teach classical logic alongside Western method and early symbolic logic. It shows how teachers trained in the madrasa logic met modern logic. https://dergipark.org.tr/en/pub/tahkik/article/1341898 news-iltas-mirat-al-usul-editions Sun, 31 Dec 2023 12:00:00 GMT usul study Davut İltaş (Tahkik: Journal of Critical Editions of Islamic Manuscripts). Mullā Khusraw's (d. 885/1480) Mirqāt al-wuṣūl, with his own commentary Mirʾāt al-uṣūl, was a standard Ḥanafī uṣūl textbook of the Ottoman madrasas. Working from the author's autograph copies while preparing a Turkish translation, the article checks four modern editions (2005–2022) and documents their errors, many caused by reliance on later copies or by failure to separate text from commentary. https://mdpi.com/2077-1444/14/12/1522 news-kurnaz-tufi-maslaha Fri, 08 Dec 2023 12:00:00 GMT usul study Serdar Kurnaz (Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin), Religions 14/12. Rereads the Ḥanbalī jurist Najm al-Dīn al-Ṭūfī, whose hadith commentary al-Taʿyīn gives public interest (maṣlaḥa) priority over Qurʾān, Sunna and consensus when they conflict. Against modern readings that either inflate or dismiss him, the article places his theory within the epistemological and hermeneutical limits he himself accepted and in its historical setting, and presents it as an original attempt within an established framework. Open access. https://kitab-project.org/OpenITI-release-2023-1-8/ news-openiti-release-2023 Tue, 24 Oct 2023 12:00:00 GMT mantiq digital KITAB project / OpenITI. An open-access release of the Open Islamicate Texts Initiative corpus: about 8,600 premodern books (13,158 text files) in machine-readable form. Many logic texts and commentaries can be searched and compared in it alongside the rest of the Arabic library. https://www.mollat.com/livres/2964418/avicenne-kitab-al-gadal-vol-1-la-dialectique news-mlih-avicenna-kitab-al-jadal-french Sat, 21 Oct 2023 12:00:00 GMT munazara translation Fouad Mlih (Vrin, Études musulmanes). French translation of Avicenna's Kitāb al-Jadal, his reworking of Aristotle's Topics, presented as the first translation of the work into a European language (402 pages). In the Shifāʾ the Topics belong to logic, as the art of arguing from widely accepted premises; the later ādāb al-baḥth drew on this philosophical jadal as well as on kalām and uṣūl. https://nazariyat.org/en/issues/cilt-9-sayi-2/khaled-rouayheb-karsi news-el-rouayheb-new-isaghuji-qarsi Sun, 01 Oct 2023 12:00:00 GMT mantiq edition Khaled El-Rouayheb (Nazariyat 9/2). An edition of the 'New Īsāghūjī' by the Ottoman scholar Dāwūd Qārṣī (d. c. 1756), with an introduction comparing it with al-Abharī's original. Twice as long as Abharī's text, it builds in the debates of five centuries of logic, which makes it a good bridge from the matn to the commentaries. https://nazariyat.org/en/issues/cilt-9-sayi-2/kenan-tekin-tr news-tekin-mabadi-mukhtasar-ibn-al-hajib Sun, 01 Oct 2023 12:00:00 GMT usul study Kenan Tekin (Yalova University), Nazariyat 9/2. Follows the fourteenth-century commentaries and glosses on the opening of Ibn al-Ḥājib's Mukhtaṣar al-Muntahā, among them al-Taftāzānī and al-Jurjānī, and their debate over whether mabādiʾ means 'principles' or 'beginnings'. It shows legal theory presented along the Aristotelian theory of science (subject matter, principles, problems), the scheme the logic handbooks teach, and a later argument that a science has one genuine element. https://basiraeducation.org/teacher-training-services/p/wit-intensive-toronto news-basira-reviving-logic-intensive Sat, 26 Aug 2023 12:00:00 GMT mantiq event Hamza Karamali (Basira Education). A two-day seminar (26–27 August 2023) for teachers and students on the classical Islamic approach to logic and knowledge and its use in modern philosophical questions. It is one example of madrasa logic being taught again outside the traditional curriculum. https://lehmanns.de/shop/geisteswissenschaften/62870830-9783031056314-women-s-contemporary-readings-of-medieval-and-modern-arabic-philosophy news-womens-readings-arabic-philosophy Fri, 30 Jun 2023 12:00:00 GMT mantiq study Saloua Chatti (ed.). A Springer volume (Logic, Argumentation & Reasoning) of essays by women scholars on Arabic philosophy from the ninth to the twentieth century, with a strong logic section, including Saloua Chatti's chapter on hypothetical logic. It widens the range of voices in the study of Arabic logic. https://irjais.com/index.php/irjais/article/view/72 news-rana-mulla-jiwan-manar-commentaries Fri, 30 Jun 2023 12:00:00 GMT usul study Hafiz Ahmed Saeed Rana, International Research Journal of Arabic and Islamic Studies. An Urdu article from Pakistan on Mullā Jīwan of Amethi (1638–1718), the Indian scholar whose Nūr al-anwār, a commentary on al-Nasafī's Manār al-anwār, is still taught in South Asian madrasas. It sets out his life, learning and works and studies the Nūr al-anwār among the Arabic commentaries on the Manār, with the aim of prompting further research on him. https://islamiclaw.blog/2023/06/15/introducing-the-twelver-u%E1%B9%A3ul-bibliography/ news-twelver-usul-bibliography Thu, 15 Jun 2023 12:00:00 GMT usul digital Kumail Rajani and Robert Gleave (University of Exeter). A database of Twelver Shīʿī legal theory built in Robert Gleave's ERC project LAWALISI at the University of Exeter and introduced in a series of four essays. It records 1,804 uṣūl titles by 797 authors from the 5th/11th to the 14th/20th century, with 3,662 manuscripts and 232 editions; most titles survive only in manuscript. At launch access was limited to the team, with open access planned. https://library.arce.org/portal/Record/54280/TOC news-bata-exploring-the-mind-of-god Mon, 01 May 2023 12:00:00 GMT usul study Hashim Bata (Brill, Studies in Islamic Law and Society). An introduction to the epistemology of Twelver Shīʿī uṣūl al-fiqh, with chapters on the non-authoritativeness of conjecture (ẓann), the authority of certainty and of substantiated conjecture, and their consequences for ijtihād. It examines the foundations used by Uṣūlī jurists since the nineteenth century, explores the relation of uṣūl to philosophy, and argues that the discipline has room for other epistemological theories. https://gorgiaspress.com/theologie-et-langage-dapres-un-theologien-asarite-andalou-disciple-de-gazali-5041111 news-amharar-ibn-al-arabi-nukat-al-mahsul Tue, 28 Mar 2023 12:00:00 GMT usul edition Ilyass Amharar (Gorgias Press, Islamic History and Thought 31). A critical edition, French translation and commentary of Nukat al-Maḥṣūl, the summary of legal theory by the Andalusian Mālikī judge and Ashʿarī theologian Abū Bakr Ibn al-ʿArabī, a disciple of al-Ghazālī. It reads his uṣūl as 'articulated between language and theology' and traces his part in bringing Ashʿarism to the Muslim West. A review in BCAI 39 (2025) notes the text had appeared before. https://dergipark.org.tr/en/pub/esoguifd/article/1192954 news-kaplangoz-wad-classification-of-sciences Wed, 15 Mar 2023 12:00:00 GMT wad study Zahit Kaplangöz (Aksaray Üniversitesi), Eskişehir Osmangazi Üniversitesi İlahiyat Fakültesi Dergisi 10/1. Testing the claim that waḍʿ anticipates modern linguistics, the article reviews ten classical waḍʿ works to set out the field's core and secondary topics. It then compares waḍʿ with linguistics, lexicology, lexicography and semiotics. https://www.illc.uva.nl/NewsandEvents/Events/Conferences/newsitem/13856/6---8-March-2023-Conference-on-the-history-of-logic-in-the-islamic-world-Tehran-Iran-Virtual news-tehran-history-of-logic-islamic-world-2023 Mon, 06 Mar 2023 12:00:00 GMT mantiq event Iranian Institute of Philosophy (IRIP) with IRFS. A three-day conference (6–8 March 2023) on pre-Avicennan, Avicennan and post-Avicennan logic and on comparative logic. It brought together the Iranian school of historians of logic, who have done much work on Khūnajī, Samarqandī and the later textbooks, with international scholars. https://edinburghuniversitypress.com/book-shi-ite-legal-theory.html news-rajani-gleave-shiite-legal-theory Wed, 01 Mar 2023 12:00:00 GMT usul edition Kumail Rajani and Robert Gleave (eds.), Edinburgh University Press / Gibb Memorial Trust. A volume that treats the Shīʿī strands of uṣūl al-fiqh, Zaydī, Ismāʿīlī and Twelver, as one family of traditions. It edits previously unpublished texts from Yemen, Iraq and Safavid Iran, spanning roughly the 11th to the 18th century, with studies on ijtihād, the epistemic value of hadith, consensus, analogy (qiyās) and the legal authority of the imams. https://library.oapen.org/handle/20.500.12657/87923 news-heirs-of-avicenna-metaphysics-theology Sun, 01 Jan 2023 12:00:00 GMT falsafa translation Peter Adamson and Fedor Benevich; Brill. The first volume of a sourcebook series on the reception of Ibn Sīnā from Syria to Central Asia, with translated and analysed passages from al-Ghazālī, al-Suhrawardī, Fakhr al-Dīn al-Rāzī, Naṣīr al-Dīn al-Ṭūsī and others. It covers essence and existence, universals, free will, Platonic Forms, proofs of God and philosophy versus theology; available through OAPEN. https://asipt.org/wp-content/uploads/2023/10/Stodlosky-WhatIsAKalimah.pdf news-stodolsky-kalima-definition-logic-grammar Sun, 01 Jan 2023 12:00:00 GMT lugha study Muhammed Volkan Yildiran Stodolsky; posted by ASIPT. The paper compares the definitions of kalima by al-Zamakhsharī, Ibn al-Ḥājib (Kāfiya) and Ibn Hishām (Qaṭr al-nadā), judged through Jāmī's al-Fawāʾid al-ḍiyāʾiyya. Ibn Hishām applies the logicians' strict standard of definition, with proximate genus, as taught in the Īsāghūjī; Jāmī and later glossators held that grammarians care more about distinguishing a term than about its essence. https://journals.uio.no/JAIS/article/download/10416/8605 news-najafi-reforging-science-of-bayan-jurjani Sun, 01 Jan 2023 12:00:00 GMT lugha study Mostafa Najafi (University of Lucerne); Journal of Arabic and Islamic Studies 23. The article studies how Muḥammad ʿAbduh in Egypt and Hellmut Ritter in Germany revived ʿAbd al-Qāhir al-Jurjānī's works on bayān in the early twentieth century, and argues that together they shaped the image of al-Jurjānī that still prevails. That image, the author holds, was formed in the long shadow of falsafa; ʿAbduh also promoted Ibn Sahlān al-Sāwī's logic, al-Baṣāʾir al-Naṣīriyya. https://munazara.ihu.edu.tr/en/publication-in-the-osmanli-da-ilm-i-mantik-ve-munazara-ottoman-logic-and-dialectics-book news-osmanlida-ilm-i-mantik-ve-munazara Thu, 01 Dec 2022 12:00:00 GMT mantiq study Mehmet Özturan, Yusuf Daşdemir and Furkan Kayacan (eds.). The proceedings of the symposium in the 'Sciences in the Ottoman Empire' series devoted to logic and the art of disputation, with contributions by Necmettin Pehlivan, Walter Edward Young and others. It is the broadest recent survey of how logic and munāẓara were taught and written in Ottoman madrasas. https://nazariyat.org/en/issues/cilt-8-sayi-1/burak-saman-olumlama-ve-olumsuzlama news-saman-affirmation-negation-ibara Sun, 01 May 2022 12:00:00 GMT mantiq study E. Burak Şaman (Nazariyat 8/1). An article on whether affirmation is prior to negation in Avicenna's commentary on De interpretatione, read against Alexander, Porphyry and Syrianus. It sheds light on the background of the chapter on propositions (qaḍāyā) in the later textbooks. https://readings.com.au/product/9780578331270/isagoge--athir-al-din-al-abhari-feryal-salem--2022--9780578331270 news-salem-isagoge-classical-primer Sat, 19 Feb 2022 12:00:00 GMT mantiq translation Feryal Salem (Blue Mountain Press). The vocalised Arabic text of al-Abharī's Īsāghūjī with a facing English translation, followed by a commentary with diagrams and tables. One of the few English editions made for students reading the matn itself. https://knova.um.edu.my/student_works_2020s/1201 news-nizam-sanusi-mukhtasar-thesis Thu, 06 Jan 2022 12:00:00 GMT mantiq study Nurfarzana Nizam (Academy of Islamic Studies, Universiti Malaya). A Malay-language master's thesis (Universiti Malaya) on al-Sanūsī's Mukhtaṣar in logic, covering signification, utterance, definition, propositions and syllogism, with a list of his technical terms. It reflects the place of Sanūsī's logic in Southeast Asian Islamic education. https://staatsbibliothek-berlin.de/en/about-the-library/departments/orient/projects/qalamos-connecting-manuscript-traditions news-qalamos-manuscript-portal Sat, 01 Jan 2022 12:00:00 GMT mantiq digital Staatsbibliothek zu Berlin with Leipzig University (DFG-funded). A portal for the oriental manuscripts held in Germany, with metadata and digital copies for more than 120,000 objects (as of 2024) in 170 languages. Arabic and Persian copies of logic texts and their glosses in German libraries can be found and often read here. https://library.oapen.org/handle/20.500.12657/54706 news-ahmed-palimpsests-of-themselves Sat, 01 Jan 2022 12:00:00 GMT mantiq study Asad Q. Ahmed (University of California Press). An open-access study built around Muḥibb Allāh al-Bihārī's Sullam al-ʿulūm, the most advanced logic textbook of Muslim South Asia, with its first full English translation and commentary. It explains the Khayrābādī commentary culture around the Sullam and argues against the story of post-classical decline. https://library.arce.org/portal/Record/47362/Description news-ibn-wasil-commentary-on-khunaji-jumal Sat, 01 Jan 2022 12:00:00 GMT mantiq edition Khaled El-Rouayheb (ed.) (Brill). The first critical edition of Ibn Wāṣil's (d. 1298) commentary on Khūnajī's handbook al-Jumal. It shows a thirteenth-century commentator weighing and correcting received views, the same 'later logic' (manṭiq al-mutaʾakhkhirīn) that shaped the Shamsiyya. https://islamonline.net/%D8%A3%D8%AD%D9%85%D8%AF-%D8%B4%D9%83%D8%B1%D9%8A-%D8%AC%D8%A7%D8%A6%D8%B2%D8%A9-%D8%A7%D9%84%D8%B4%D9%8A%D8%AE-%D8%AD%D9%85%D8%AF-%D9%84%D9%84%D8%AA%D8%B1%D8%AC%D9%85%D8%A9/ news-tatawwur-al-mantiq-al-arabi-translation Sat, 01 Jan 2022 12:00:00 GMT mantiq translation Ahmed Shokry Mogahed (translator). An Arabic translation of El-Rouayheb's survey of later Arabic logic, made with the Nohoudh Center; it won the encouragement prize of the eighth (2022) Sheikh Hamad Award for Translation. It makes the main modern history of post-Avicennan logic available to readers trained in Arabic. https://www.albalaghbooks.com/beliefs-and-practices/islamic-beliefs-aqaaid/al-risala-fi-tahqiq-al-ilm-wa-al-malum/ news-fadl-haqq-risala-ilm-maalum-edition Sat, 01 Jan 2022 12:00:00 GMT falsafa edition Ghulām Ḥaydar Khayrābādī (ed.); Maktaba al-Ghanim. An annotated Arabic edition, based on manuscripts, of Faḍl-i Ḥaqq Khayrābādī's treatise on the nature of knowledge and its relation to the known object, including mental existence and the views of philosophers and theologians. A text of the Indian ḥikma tradition on the question behind the division of knowledge into conception (taṣawwur) and assent (taṣdīq). https://openaccess.marmara.edu.tr/entities/publication/6f459258-b569-4c7d-a966-0e66a14f82cf/full news-ozpilavci-hasirizade-al-mabda Fri, 17 Dec 2021 12:00:00 GMT mantiq study Ferruh Özpilavcı. A paper given at the symposium 'Logic and Disputation in the Ottoman Empire' on one of the last Ottoman commentaries on the Īsāghūjī. It shows the matn still generating new commentaries at the end of the Ottoman period. https://ingramacademic.com/products/avicennas-theory-of-science-9780520297470 news-strobino-avicennas-theory-of-science Tue, 09 Nov 2021 12:00:00 GMT mantiq study Riccardo Strobino (University of California Press). The first full study of how Avicenna reworked Aristotle's Posterior Analytics into a theory of demonstration and real definition. It is the background to the chapters on demonstration (burhān) and definition in every later logic book. https://www.degruyterbrill.com/document/doi/10.1515/9783110726565/html news-di-vincenzo-avicenna-madkhal Mon, 19 Apr 2021 12:00:00 GMT mantiq edition Silvia Di Vincenzo (De Gruyter, Scientia Graeco-Arabica 31). A critical edition, from 34 manuscripts and the Latin translation, of Avicenna's own 'Isagoge' in the Shifāʾ, with English translation and commentary. It explains Avicenna's reworking of Porphyry's five predicables, which Abharī's Īsāghūjī later condensed for beginners. https://elmi.hbku.edu.qa/en/publications/the-rebuttal-of-the-logicians/ news-ibn-taymiyya-rebuttal-of-the-logicians Tue, 29 Dec 2020 12:00:00 GMT mantiq translation Asadullah Yate and Sameh Mustafa Asal (trans.), Dheen Mohamed (ed.) (Garnet Publishing). An English translation of Ibn Taymiyya's full critique of Greek logic, aimed at its theory of definition and its claim that the syllogism yields certainty. Reading the strongest classical objections is part of understanding why the logicians framed definition and demonstration as they did. https://ci.nii.ac.jp/ncid/BC03763120?l=en news-chatti-hodges-farabi-syllogism Wed, 01 Jan 2020 12:00:00 GMT mantiq translation Saloua Chatti and Wilfrid Hodges (Bloomsbury Academic). An English translation, with introduction, of al-Fārābī's short book on the syllogism, in the Ancient Commentators on Aristotle series. It shows the syllogistic of the first great Arabic logician before Avicenna. https://ci.nii.ac.jp/ncid/BB31341550?l=en news-ibn-tumlus-compendium-on-logic Wed, 01 Jan 2020 12:00:00 GMT mantiq edition Fouad Ben Ahmed (ed.) (Brill). A critical edition with introduction, notes and indexes of the logic of the Andalusian Ibn Ṭumlūs (d. 1223), a student of the Averroist line. It documents the western, Andalusian branch of Arabic logic. https://dergipark.org.tr/en/pub/tahkik/article/684925 news-ozpilavci-oztop-sharh-mawadi-mushkila-shamsiyya Tue, 31 Dec 2019 12:00:00 GMT mantiq edition Ferruh Özpilavcı and Abdullah Öztop (Tahkik journal). An edition, from its only known copy (Süleymaniye, Fazıl Ahmed Paşa 1612), of a commentary on the hard passages of the Shamsiyya, with arguments that its author is al-Kātibī himself. If so, it is the author's own explanation of his famous textbook. https://find.library.upatras.gr/Record/978-3-030-27466-5/Description news-chatti-arabic-logic-farabi-averroes Wed, 27 Nov 2019 12:00:00 GMT mantiq study Saloua Chatti (Birkhäuser, Studies in Universal Logic). A technical survey, in modern logical notation, of the categorical, modal and hypothetical syllogistic of al-Fārābī, Avicenna and Averroes. A clear guide to the material that the later primers assume when they set out the figures and moods. https://nazariyat.org/en/issues/volume-5-issue-2/m0077 news-turker-qutb-al-din-al-razi-assent Fri, 01 Nov 2019 12:00:00 GMT mantiq study Ömer Türker (Nazariyat 5/2). An analysis of Quṭb al-Dīn al-Rāzī's treatise on conception and assent (al-Risāla al-maʿmūla fī l-taṣawwur wa-l-taṣdīq). The division of knowledge into taṣawwur and taṣdīq opens every madrasa logic book, and Quṭb al-Dīn is also the classic commentator of the Shamsiyya. https://dergipark.org.tr/en/pub/mader news-mantik-arastirmalari-dergisi Mon, 01 Jul 2019 12:00:00 GMT mantiq digital Erciyes University. An open-access, peer-reviewed Turkish journal for logic, published by Erciyes University, whose first issue appeared in 2019. It regularly carries studies, editions and reviews on Islamic and Ottoman logic. https://philevents.org/event/show/67566 news-st-andrews-workshop-history-arabic-logic Tue, 07 May 2019 12:00:00 GMT mantiq event Barbara Bartocci and Stephen Read (University of St Andrews). A two-day workshop (7–8 May 2019) at the Arché Research Centre on the logic written in Arabic from the eighth to the fifteenth century. It brought specialists in Arabic logic together with historians of medieval logic. https://schwabe.ch/memp2-development-of-arabic-logic news-el-rouayheb-development-of-arabic-logic Wed, 10 Apr 2019 12:00:00 GMT mantiq study Khaled El-Rouayheb (Schwabe). A survey of six centuries of later Arabic logic: its major themes, authors and works and its regional schools from North Africa to India. It replaces Rescher's 1964 account and is the best single map of the tradition to which the Īsāghūjī, the Shamsiyya, the Tahdhīb and the Sullam belong. https://openaccess.marmara.edu.tr/entities/publication/87b041ec-aba1-4292-bc4c-a3b2cd23e5c9/full news-aksu-mahmud-nedim-sullam-commentary Tue, 01 Jan 2019 12:00:00 GMT mantiq study Enes Aksu (Marmara University; supervisor Ferruh Özpilavcı). A master's thesis surveying the versified logic texts of the Islamic tradition, with a Latin-script edition of Mahmud Nedim's Ottoman Turkish translation and commentary on al-Akhḍarī's al-Sullam al-murawnaq. It traces how the North African verse primer was used in the Ottoman lands.