Ottoman logician from Kars who taught in Egypt and wrote a commentary on the Īsāghūjī as an alternative to al-Fanārī's.
Life
Dāwūd b. Muḥammad al-Qārisī (Turkish: Dâvûd-i Karsî), from Kars in eastern Anatolia, was a scholar of , Arabic, kalām and ḥadīth who taught in Egypt and elsewhere and died in 1169/1756.
Twelve works on are known from him, among them on al-Kātibī's al-Shamsiyya and al-Taftāzānī's Tahdhīb, and a new introductory text of his own, al-jadīd. He took a practical view of logic: a tool for the religious sciences rather than a part of philosophy.
Works
- Sharḥ Īsāghūjī شَرْحُ إِيساغُوجِي — on ĪsāghūjīWritten as an alternative to al-Fanārī's widely read commentary; it cites, among others, al-Sanūsī as a representative of the Egyptian-Maghribi school. Critical edition from four manuscripts by Ferruh Özpilavcı, Cumhuriyet İlahiyat Dergisi 21/3 (2017), 2009–2068.commentary
- Īsāghūjī al-jadīd إِيساغُوجِي الجَدِيدHis own new introduction to logic.work
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